Guys, our endeavour is to bring you the most updated tools in the market. On the same lines, we had talked about WebTunnel here. The author just announced a newer version 0.0.5!
This version has added these new features:
Added support for proxy auto-configuration. Fixed a bug that would cause a keep-alive timeout to stop the tunnel. Fixed a fork handling bug to support ActivePerl’s negative PIDs.
So, you are at work and all you have are the default HTTP ports open. You still want to use other ports and do things other normal users would do. What do you do in such a case? Simple! Use Webtunnel!
Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and transmits it through a web server.
This rings a bell alright! HTTPTunnel! Well, not exactly. It is similar to httptunnel, however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support) so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple destinations simultaneously. Also, HTTPTunnel refuses to work through a reverse proxy. To top it, it allowed only one connection at a time and required multiple instances to tunnel to different ports!
A good news is that a new version was released yesterday! So, in Webtunnel 0.0.3 you have, Added child wait in server to fix zombies under FastCGI Added user authentication based on HTTP user Added access control lists based on user Changed the default debug level to 1 Changed some command line behavior
Download and related information is available here: Download: Get the latest version of the software. Documentation: Browse the user documentation. Forums: Disucss with other webtunnel users. Bugs: Review and submit bug repots.
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