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From: laird@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: turn Kermit into an HTTP proxy server?
Date: 6 May 1995 02:41:40 GMT
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It seems to me that Kermit offers a darn nice base of features
for building an HTTP proxy on.
What I'm thinking of is a way to let people browse the Web with
their choice of browsers, but without an IP connection. It
could work by starting a Kermit server on the host side, then
putting the remote Kermit into an "HTTP proxy" mode.
The remote Kermit would then listen on a local port (80) for
queries, package those queries, send them to the host Kermit
and wait for a response. The host Kermit could use a command
line browser to process the query, and then send the result
back to the remote Kermit. The remote Kermit would then echo
this result to the browser.
This requires a server-mode data connection, the ability to
send and receive binary files over 7 and 8 bit "dirty"
connections, and the ability to run external programs. It
seems to me that Kermit has all of this already.
So...is it feasible? Is anyone working on such a project?
--kyler