From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86897 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus on the web? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:23:18 +1100 Message-ID: <87si0nn62x.fsf@gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455956643 30170 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 08:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:24:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35119@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 20 09:23:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2pU-0006nZ-Cb for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:23:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2pR-0007k0-Kz; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:23:49 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2pP-0007jM-3Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:23:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2pO-0006zB-0H for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:23:46 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2pM-0007av-Kw for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:23:44 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aX2p0-00013R-GX for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:23:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:44:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aX2p0-00013R-GX MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1456561403.24944@GmdxYLN9JT6UGCyqHYFswg X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86897 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: > After a firewall policy change at work, I am without access to Gmane at > work. I can't even SSH out to run Gnus on a different machine. > > But HTTP and HTTPS are open, and web browsers can be used to surf the > internet. Hm... hasn't somebody made a general TCP over HTTPS service? So that you can tunnel NNTP over HTTPS? > So: would it be possible to create a web service that could run Gnus in > a web browser? > > The user experience could be similar to what I get from ssh or mosh. > That would be good enough just to check my email, and check for > responses to Gmane group postings. Hm... That should be possible, but I haven't heard of anybody doing that. :-) But a general "shell console" as a web service over HTTPS surely exists somewhere... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no