[Wylug-help] SSH over HTTP/HTTPS (Corkscrew?)

[Dave Fisher]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:11:09PM +0100, Steve King wrote:
> Our school network is heavily firewalled, no external IP address in the 
> school
> at all, and only outbound http(s) traffic is permitted.

The exact conditions that I find at most of my clients' sites.
 
> I use HTS http tunnel  running on my home computer to let me ssh to it.  
> Every
> so often the server needs a restart, but I've made a cgi page on my box to 
> let
> me do that remotely.
> 
> If this seems like the sort of thing you want mail me back.  A quick google
> has found http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel/faq.html  but that's not
> the site I used when I set it up.

Looks interesting, and pleasantly simple.

Is the ssh traffic always encrypted? ... even though it doesn't
necessarily signify, I still get a bit worried when I see developer
examples using 'telnet'

Dave