From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus on the web? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:00:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb5j9xsf.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <87si0nn62x.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455984155 9664 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 16:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35126@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 20 17:02:23 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 1aX9zC-0002nP-FM for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:02:22 +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 1aX9xs-0002Vp-A3; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:01:00 -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 1aX9xp-0002VP-5d for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:00:57 -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 1aX9xm-0000BG-8e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:00:57 -0600 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aX9xk-0003CQ-F6; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:00:52 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=awWK/ZKZOpmVXNl1eRBOK31ajkbl7VoL8iAzloQDDkg=; b=bAqOOjDqF7UhLUrk/8LWw91bPsYSzOLefbYqrrOOYe/v8iO8Fd3xJtdeF2Y+Z88LbXDYWAdZ0ydueYHYwy/DwZblVe0nV8/Z+lhohMnckKwykcqbH+SNi+LRzPlNP0C7; Original-Received: from ip4d1494ed.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.148.237] helo=isaac) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aX9xj-0001uY-K7; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:00:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87si0nn62x.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:23:18 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86904 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > 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. 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