<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2722.900" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Question in a nutshell:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Is there any public server which supports access through http tuneling?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The situation:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am behind a firewall and have access only to port 80 through a firewall.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Now, i want to try out some xmpp client related coding.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am on windows and have jabberd 1.4.2 installed. So till now, i used to connect to localhost on 5222 and it wasnt a problem.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Now, i have reached a stage where i need a server with yahoo/msn transports so that i can try out some stuff.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>This wont be possible on my local machine.(windows 2k, behind firewall) So i HAVE to connect to one of the public servers. I guess the only hope is HTTP tunneling.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Is there any server out there which supports this? Or is it possible that I can connect my localhost server to some gateway on the net over a tunnel?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Or some other solution?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I searched the archives and found this<<A href="http://www.jabber.org/pipermail/juser/2003-August/000340.html">http://www.jabber.org/pipermail/juser/2003-August/000340.html</A>> thread, but unfortunately, it wasnt very useful.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Amol</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was still nothing, but you could see it.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>