What is the purpose of HTTP tunneling?
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Answer / guest
HTTP tunneling is used to encapsulate other protocols within
the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. It is typically used to pass
protocols that would normally be blocked by a firewall
through the firewall in a controlled manner.
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Answer / rohit sharma
There are two types HTTP tunneling
1.HTTP to Port
2.Http To CGI
this concept is frequently used in RMI
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Answer / siddharthteotia
Through http Tunneling we can write serialized objec tsand
we can also read back from them. We are creating a kind of
another protocol inside protocol that is why we say
tunneling inside a protocol. This saves us from dealing
with the actual transport layer in case of firewalled
environments
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Answer / rajani nagandla
This well-worn method is popular since it requires almost
no setup, and works quite well in firewalled environments
which permit you to handle HTTP through a proxy, but
disallow regular outbound TCP connections.
If Java RMI fails to make a normal (or SOCKS) connection to
the intended server, and it notices that a HTTP proxy
server is configured, it will attempt to tunnel Java RMI
requests through that proxy server, one at a time.
There are two forms of HTTP tunnelling, tried in order. The
first is http-to-port; the second is http-to-cgi.
In http-to-port tunneling, Java RMI attempts a HTTP POST
request to a http: URL directed at the exact hostname and
port number of the target server. The HTTP request contains
a single Java RMI request. If the HTTP proxy accepts this
URL, it will forward the POST request to the listening Java
RMI server, which will recognize the request and unwrap it.
The result of the call is wrapped in a HTTP reply, which is
returned through the same proxy.
Often, HTTP proxies will refuse to proxy requests to
unusual port numbers. In this case, Java RMI will fall back
to http-to-cgi tunneling. The Java RMI request is
encapsulated in a HTTP POST request as before, but the
request URL is of the form http://hostname:80/cgi-bin/java-
rmi.cgi?port=n (where hostname and n are the hostname and
port number of the intended server). There must be a HTTP
server listening on port 80 on the server host, which will
run the java-rmi.cgi script (supplied with the JDK), which
will in turn forward the request to a Java RMI server
listening on port n. Java RMI can unwrap a HTTP-tunneled
request without help from a http server, CGI script, or any
other external entity. So, if the client's HTTP proxy can
connect directly to the server's port, then you don't need
a java-rmi.cgi script at all.
To trigger the use of HTTP tunneling, the standard system
property http.proxyHost must be set to the hostname of the
local HTTP proxy. (There are reports that some Navigator
versions do not set this property.)
The major disadvantage of HTTP tunneling is that it does
not permit inward calls or multiplexed connections. A
secondary disadvantage is that the http-to-cgi method opens
a dramatic security hole on the server side, since without
modification it will redirect any incoming request to any
port
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Answer / rajib dhak
http is a hyper text transfer protocol
it is used in web server to web client
it is a one kind of internet protocoils
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