[FFmpeg-soc] Specific Project Goals

[Sisir Koppaka]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Reimar Döffinger <
Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:58:42PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > And a quick check on debian packages comes up with httptunnel,
> > connect-proxy, corkscrew all of which allow tunneling through a http
> > proxy. I would have to run that on my main PC though, so I could provide
> > that only about 14 hours/day max.
>
> I just noticed that these programs can actually tunnel an arbitrary tcp
> connection through http proxies, at least squid, without any special
> remote server. I always assumed that http proxies would regenerate the
> HTTP requests, and at least the one squid config I have does (at least
> sometimes) since it is configured to gzip-compress everything it
> receives before passing it on...
> Amazing how little one knows ;-)
>
Do you mean you can ssh through a proxy??? That would be extremely useful
here, but http-tunnel does seem to require an external computer, so were you
referring to corkscrew or some other program?

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Sisir Koppaka