From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200211051902.gA5J2Zg01790@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Tunneling 9p over rfc822 encoded email/SMTP?
Date: Tue,  5 Nov 2002 14:02:35 -0500
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Has anyone worked on this?  I think it'd be useful, as email traffic is
frequently allowed through corporate firewalls.  Sure, the latency would
be high, but still....  We could uuencode the packet data.

How about carrier pigeons?  There's an RFC for transmitting IP packets
via carrier pigeon, and that'll certainly get through a corporate firewall
(and a lot of fenced-in compounds, as well).

	- Dan C.

(btw- we can already tunnel 9p over SSH; would it be that hard to write
something that did HTTP proxying and then invoke it out of execnet?)