Re: OT: access ftp when it is blocked

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:13:31 +0000
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com> wrote:

> (wildly off-topic)
> Dear all
> I have a nasty Internet connection that blocks mostly everything but
> HTTP. Thus I cannot access FTP content such as this [1]. Would anyone
> have an idea on how to access FTP content solely by using HTTP?
> 
> Thank you
> Liviu

I think that you want HTTP tunneling.  I've never done it, but here are
some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel
http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
http://www.jumperz.net/index.php?i=2&a=0&b=0
http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/
http://butterseite.antville.org/stories/528488

Celejar
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