From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus on the web?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:00:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb5j9xsf.fsf@randomsample.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si0nn62x.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:23:18 +1100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> 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.
I'd guess those are not really open but proxied.
> Hm... hasn't somebody made a general TCP over HTTPS service? So that
> you can tunnel NNTP over HTTPS?
You can use corkscrew to tunnel ssh over http(s) proxies.
http://agroman.net/corkscrew/
And when you have ssh, you can tunnel everything else. Doing this at
work though... not the best idea.
>> 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...
Back in my adminstrator days I not-so-fondly remember phpshell. When you
found that one somewhere, you knew you've been hacked. I'm sure
something better is out there nowadays.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-20 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 7:44 Steinar Bang
2016-02-20 8:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 10:50 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-20 16:00 ` David Engster [this message]
2016-02-20 17:51 ` Steinar Bang
2016-03-05 22:13 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-20 9:02 ` Dave
2016-03-05 22:08 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-20 12:55 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2016-02-21 17:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2016-03-05 22:04 ` Bjørn Mork
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