Proxy woes

[Super Stu]

Anyone fancy earning that self certified network-guru badge I often see flashed around here?

I'm behind a proxy in work. http and https traffic appear to be configured in IE to work via port 80 (to the proxy). I had a quick search about on the net and I gather there is software about to tunnel through allowed ports (80 in this case) to permit wider net access (I'm thinking irc here, but failing that some sort of connection via port 80 to my PC at home where I'll have an IRC bouncer running), but I'm not keen on running 3rd party apps of which I know nowt about in work.

Ideas, folks?

afterthought - I suspect we can assume every port and his dog is blocked, other than 80.

[Ginger Tosser]

If you have an xp pc at home you could enable remote desktop and browse to that on port 3389

[Super Stu]

so in work, browse http://myip:3389?

That port gonna be allowed past the proxy? Sounds like I'd need XP in work too?

[Ish]

I'm no expert but...

If there all blocked other than 80 then you'd need a piece of software running on the other side sat on port 80 (so you could get through the proxy) that accepted requests on that port and redirected them on to where you wanted to go (potentially on another port) and vice versa.

I don't know if you can configue remote desktop to run on port 80 but if you could...

Actually doesn't it depend on the type of proxy too? In that some proxies are HTTP proxies but others are packet/socket proxies?

[Super Stu]

Guess a quiet chat with the IT guy is in order :/

Thanks anyway lads.

[yashiro]

Whats wrong with that IRC proxy we set up before?

[Tom Salter]

Like Ish says, you'll need to set up port forwarding on your home side's router/firewall.

I had to do it to play Halo online through my firewall, as my firewall only let ports 80, 8080 and ftp through.

Depends whether your router's configuration lets you do it though, i had to use Lunix to do it. And I got someone else to configure it ;S

[Super Stu]

I've got an IRC bouncer running on my PC here connected to quakenet, accepts incoming connections on port 80. Mate from the US connected to quakenet via me ok, minimal lag.

Fingers crossed it'll be the same in work tomorrow.

[Super Stu]

There must be more to this corporate firewall/proxy than meets the eye. Tried connecting to my PC via port 80 (know for a fact it works), won't even find the server nevermind connect.

Bum :/

[gunrock]

There must be more to this corporate firewall/proxy than meets the eye. Tried connecting to my PC via port 80 (know for a fact it works), won't even find the server nevermind connect.

Bum :/

Probably got ip blocking on to. Only certain sites' ip addresses are allowed, I'd imagine. Fascists...

[Super Stu]

Well, that's the thing, I (appear) to have unrestricted net access. Obviously haven't tested the theory fully, but they seem to be more than happy for folk to sit on game sites all day.

I'll have to buy the IT guy a pint