Experiment: remotesocket

[Niklas Cathor]

Hello people!

I think someone once mentioned the idea to me, to have unhosted web
apps speak non-http protocols (such as SMTP, IMAP, IRC, XMPP, ...) and
then simply tunnel their connection through a websocket.

Yesterday I thought about it and decided to give it a try.

The result can be found here: http://remotesocket-experiment.unread.it/

It works like this:
* The client (browser) opens a websocket connection. The path of that
websocket looks like /:host/:port?options, so for example
/imap.google.com/993?ssl=true would open an SSL connection to google's
IMAP server.
* The server end of the websocket is a small nodejs app, that opens
the connection and forwards all data from and to the client and
remoteserver respectively.

Code is on github:
https://github.com/nilclass/remotesocket-client
https://github.com/nilclass/remotesocket-node

Have fun!

-- Niklas

[Nick Jennings]

Hey, pretty cool! :)

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