Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 30 Oct: > Sometimes you'd rather that over nothing. I know at least two places > (and guess there are thousands) that do not permit any outgoing > traffic except http over their proxy (so that running sshd on port 80 > won't work either). If you had a way to run such a http<->ssh proxy, > even a slow and non-responsive one, you would use it when you had to.
in such a case you will either have to ask the original developers to change their specs and support a polling mode (better luck with VNC than with X or SSH), or build your own sophisticated SSH-to-HTTP gateway (and another for X) to fake interaction with the server until the client polls again and gets the accumulated updates. it's a guaranteed brain damage, and causes much annoyance to the poor end users. some tools were not meant for all tasks. if your company refuses you interactive ssh connections, I guess they really don't want you to have ssh connections, direct or over http. trying to re-engineer good technology to accomodate twisted mindsets of organisms makes sense only up to a certain point. -- Wild thing Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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