Webtunnel / News: Recent posts

WHAT'S NEW

2009/05/13

Added an option to be able to include HTTP headers in requests<br>

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.

WHAT'S NEW

2009/03/17

Added support for proxy auto-configuration
Fixed a bug that would cause a keep-alive timeout to stop the tunnel
Fixed a fork handling bug to support ActivePerl's negative PIDs

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.

WHAT'S NEW

2009/03/06

Added option to output log messages to a file instead of STDERR
Improved command line usage and included verbose help option

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.... read more

WHAT'S NEW

Added child wait in server to fix zombies under FastCGI
Added user authentication based on HTTP user
Added access control lists based on user
Changed the default debug level to 1
Changed some command line behavior

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.

WHAT'S NEW

2009/02/05

Client certificate/key support for SSL
Documented some of the configuration options

2009/02/03

First public release

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.

WHAT'S NEW

2009/02/03

First public release

ABOUT

Webtunnel is a network utility that encapsulates arbitrary data in HTTP and
transmits it through a web server. In that regard, it is similar to httptunnel,
however, it has several key important differences: its server component runs in
the context of a web server as a CGI application (with optional FastCGI support)
so it does not need its own port, and supports most things that the web server
supports, such as authentication, HTTP 1.1, HTTPS, and client certificates; it
uses simple requests and responses so it works seamlessly through forward and
reverse proxies; it is multi-threaded (actually multi-process using sockets for
inter-process communication) to allow multiple parallel connections to multiple
destinations simultaneously.