How to work from behind proxies ? (with patch providing a partial solution)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Vincent LADEUIL <v.ladeuil at alplog.fr> [2006.07.27.1045 +0100]:
> Hmmm. So  you propose to install  OpenVPN on the H  host only and
> not  on the  F  one (where  I  lack admins  privileges to  modify
> network setup) ? Care to elaborate a bit on your setup then ?

Laptop -> HTTP Proxy -> Firewall -> [Internet] -> my machine:443

In your case I'd run it on H and make both F and W connect to it.
You could then automatically connect from W to F and vice versa.

> 
> How  would I  handle https  connections  for the  H https  server
> already listening on 443 ?

Ah, you cannot really do that.

But what you could do, and I've long wanted to implement this, is
write a stupid daemon that listens on port 443 and will wait for
a configurable (small) amount of time for traffic from the client.
If it gets traffic, it passes the connection off to apache. If it
does not get traffic, it passes off to sshd. This should work
because http and ssh do differ in who says the first word in
a connection: the client issues a request for HTTP, but waits for
the server banner for SSH.

I'll reply privately from now on, but wanted to make the above idea
more public to increase the chance of someone picking up on it. :)

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