Re: bittorent thru a proxy (TCP thorugh HTTP proxy).
On 9/26/07, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:43 +0100
> "abdelkader belahcene" <abelahcene@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I want to use gnome-btdownload, to download a bittorent cd.
> > I works fine when there is no proxy.
> > But I can't use it when there is a proxy
> > help please
> > best regards
> >
> >
>
> gnome-btdownload doesn't have proxy support. Routing bittorrent
> traffic through an HTTP proxy is problematic anyway. See
> http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#proxy for a discussion of the issues.
>
At work I have set up http tunnel (www.http-tunnel.com, on a windows
PC) to route all the network traffic from my work laptop (debian)
through the http-proxy. Works great, even bittorrent (although a bit
slow).
I'm sure there are TCP through HTTP tunnels for Debian somewhere in the archive.
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