Re: TCP-into-HTTP tunnelling

[Arrakis Tor <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is possible. One thing we are considering is a socks handler to
intercept connection attempts and route them through the Tor
network... one person suggested using Freecap or some other such
program. I'll check it out. Maybe Thunderbird has internal
socksification, in which case I would just use that.

ST



On 10/6/05, Eduardo Costa Lisboa <eduardo.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/6/05, Matej Kovacic <matej.kovacic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>
> > Say you want to fetch your mail from your ISP mail server. You usually
> > simply connect to port 110 on the POP server of your ISP.
> >
> > Trouble: there is a Big Bad firewall which blocks everything.
> >
> > Well... it does not exactly block everything: it lets HTTP out through a
> > proxy.
> > Let's encapsulate our POP3 connection into HTTP.
>
> Oh, my gosh! That's exactly my situation! Thanks a lot, Matej!
>
>
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> Eduardo Costa Lisboa
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