Http Tunneling

SiMaster

Hi Guys,

Can someone tell me what http tunneling is, i have read breifly that it is an effective way of hiding your IP address is this true?

How does it work?

open discussion.................

cheers

electron_3

Firewalls are intended to prevent unauthorized access to a company's internal network, but firewalls can also disable access for legitimate clients. Firewalls restrict the types of protocol traffic that may travel into an internal network. A firewall will usually restrict the ports that can be connected to by outside requestors. In most cases, network administrators will configure a firewall to only allow HTTP traffic on the default Web server port, 80. Traffic sent across an HTTP connection is considered relatively safe and, thus, HTTP has become the standard entry protocol to an internal network. Technologies such as SOAP have been designed to provide safe access through a firewall by using HTTP as the transport protocol.
HTTP tunneling is designed mainly for firewall aversion. HTTP tunneling performs protocol encapsulation, by enclosing data packets of one protocol (SOAP, JRMP, etc.) within HTTP Packets. The HTTP packets are then sent across the firewall as normal internet traffic. Applications typically exploit HTTP tunneling by, first, trying to establish a connection with a server using a normal socket connection. If the socket connection attempt is rejected by a firewall, the application will automatically retry the connection by encapsulating its data within an HTTP POST request.


From http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/knowledgebaseAnswer/0,295199,sid63_gci984503,00.html

MercilessKiller

SiMaster wrote:

Hi Guys,

Can someone tell me what http tunneling is, i have read breifly that it is an effective way of hiding your IP address is this true?

How does it work?

open discussion.................

cheers

At university our IT Proxy blocks most gaming outgoing ports and torrents etc for obvious reasons.

What people do to get round this is buy an http tunneling service such as https://www.your-freedom.net . Then they would download SocksCap32 . Next step would be running a game/torrent THROUGH sockscap (vritual sockserver) and set your freedom to forward the socks port through the http tunnel server....

I know on World of Warcraft it works perfect but not sure for what else.

Thats just one use of http tunnelling

amosworks

If you're assuming that HTTP tunneling can be used just to hide your IP address, it seems a strange thing to say? Why not get a proxy.

SiMaster

i don't understand that last post?

amosworks

HTTP tunnelling is/can be used for a lot more. Are you just asking random/general questions about stuff or do you actually have a problem that needs solving?