News server

probably your mum dropped you on your head as a baby.

 

Use SSH tunnelling. I use a freeware tool called Putty to do it here.

It also involves running sshd as a server on your box there with some
setup to allow the tunnel to be created.

Phil

 

Yeah sorry - I meant that it is hard to do https *application* proxy on
a firewall because the stream is encrypted.

Application proxying being the variant that checks for valid
application-level commands in the data stream - specifically in order
to prevent tunneling other protocols via the proxied protocol.

Phil.

 

Yeah - most IT companies generally are of the "ban only the bad stuff"
(X11, Microsoft CIFS and the like) school.

Phil

 

It does work - IT people are not generally of the "click on everything
despite the warnings" school. Most of the places do tie down sensative
ports (like SMTP) with will reduce the impact if a virus does get
loose.

Phil

 

Indeed - hence the only other way would be something like tunneling
over an already encrypted link (TLS, https etc etc) that the firewall
cannot do protocol verification on.

Phil

 

And port 135/137 as well I assume..

And the way that removing the admin share stops things working..

Ah bless..

Phil

 

google for 'nntp "web services"' - at least one person has implemented
a web services interface to a news server. If you could set that up, I
could probably knock together a JSP thin client. Or potentially a
client-side web services consumer proxy that translated back into nntp.