You can make direct outgoing connections with an http proxy with no
modifications to the protocol required.
This works very similar to a socks proxy.

Ben

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jernej Simoncic" <[email protected]>
To: "Fredrik Tolf on [dcdev]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: [dcdev] Re: Suggestions

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, 0:19:54, Fredrik Tolf wrote:

> While that is a very interesting thought, I wouldn't bet that it would
> work. Admittedly, I'm no HTTP expert, but as far as I understand it,
> HTTP (especially when connected through restricting proxies) is
> probably too sequential for the kind of duplex connection that a DC
> implementation requires.

With HTTP/1.1, you can do multiple requests on 1 connection - send first
request, get data, send the next one etc (it is also possible to send
multiple requests at once, however this is still uncommon).

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