VNC on port 80

[Habermann, David (DA)]

You might want to consider that almost all firewalls support CONNECT type
requests on port 443 (HTTPS).

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Harmen van der Wal [mailto:harmen.wal "at" tip.nl]
Sent: 08 December, 2000 8:39 PM
To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
Subject: Re: VNC on port 80


Harmen van der Wal wrote:
<...>
> That would be "Full-duplex Firewall Tunneling with Low Overhead". What
> worries me about that, is that "simulative multiplexed communication" by
> using HTTP/1.0's GET or POST operator, seems to be the only way for
> applets to go. If I read http://www.mokabyte.it/2000/06/firewallutil.htm
> correctly.

Probably not.... the applet only needs to connect back to the vnc host,
from where it's served also. Well, I'd better run some tests now, before
I have to correct myself again;-)

<...>

-- 
Harmen
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