HTTP Tunnel Help/Suggestion?

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So I bought some webspace, with an SSL connection if that matters. I'm not really using it for much, but I thought I might setup an HTTP Tunnel on it. I'm not sure that I can do that, at least not without it being a real server, or at least virtual server, which it isn't. I found a Perl HTTP Tunnel, but my webserver doesn't have the module pre-installed.

I can run one on my home machine of course, but my connection there only pumps out about 70kbps which blows ass. Anywho, anyone have any suggestions if this is possible & if so, maybe some steps to get it started?

[Ddrak]

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do. Redirect your home machine via your web space? Download things to your web space? Upload things from your web space?

If you're trying to make you're internet connection faster, it probably won't work because the limiting speed is still going to be the speed from your home box to the net. Having a really fast link in there doesn't help too much.

Dd

[Kulaf]

Sounds like someone wants to be able to do things via HTTP that are currently blocked perhaps by the employer he is currently at so he wants to use the HTTP port to tunnel out to a non-restricted space.

[Minute]

What Kulaf said. Work blocks the dumbest shit. I get that they don't want us to surf porn and shit, but they block stuff that is actually extremely productive. Like my google docs and shit. And no I can't just go to the admin and say "Hey I need this unblocked" because it's a super mega corp and they don't give two shits about their rats in the maze. Anywho, as said I can tunnel from the home machine, but it's slow as fuck, if I can do it off my web host it would speed it up some.

[Ddrak]

Ahhh. I see.

What does your web site allow you to put on it, as far as scripting stuff goes? PHP? If so, you can probably just use one of the couple available at sourceforge (google "PHP Proxy").

Dd

[Minute]

That's the part I'm a little confused on. I can put PHP, Perl, ect scripts on my site. And I can load them on through the ftp. But but outside of calling them with my web browser, I don't know how to execute them. As far as languages go, I'm most familiar with Perl so I found this: Perl HTTP Tunnel but again... need to start httptunnel_client.pl so...

Durr help

[Ddrak]

Ok - that looks like a fairly sophisticated package. What you'll need to do is install (using FTP) the "HTTPTunnel PHP Server" onto your web site. That's pretty much all there is to do there. Then you need to download and install Perl on your local machine (google ActiveState Perl for a good one). After that, run the perl client software on your machine - that should give you a SOCKS proxy link up to the server so you can just point your web browser (or any other program that supports SOCKS) to "localhost", port "1080" as a "SOCKS proxy" and it should just work.

Dd

[Minute]

That makes some sense. I'll tinker with it and see what I can come up with.