Is there any plan to support HTTP Proxy

Flynn Marquardt flynn at flynn.mine.nu
Thu Jun 7 16:53:14 CEST 2007


Am Donnerstag, den 07.06.2007, 08:33 -0400 schrieb
net at pine.mailshell.com:
> Tinc is a great idea but often we sit behind corporate firewall which
> also often to only allow traffic to go through HTTP proxy. is there any
> plan of tinc to implement the proxy support, then it will truely be
> wonderful.  
> 
> like other through proxy service, one might setup a broker server to
> establish an initial connection through proxy and then hand over the
> communication to point-to-point, like services as foldershare, logmein
> etc. 
> 
> or the node behind proxy server initiate connection to node that is not
> behind proxy. 
> 
> just an idea. 
> 
> Hansong

Native support in tinc is not needed, you can use libraries like
transconnect instead:

http://transconnect.sourceforge.net/

For me Transconnect worked fine with tinc.

Flynn



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