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Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
Posts: 1,207
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only have ftp access
My pc running Win XP Pro is behind a firewall that gives you access to http if you have a password which I do not have. I just found that if I run Virtual Box on top of Win XP with a guest session of MCN Linux Delft that I can update my software using ftp repositories (I checked the repository locations and saw it upgrade my entire distribution from ftp locations).
What does this mean? It seems I can only access ftp. Is it possible to get http through ftp using http tunneling here:
It seems ftp is allowed in your configuration; httptunnel will probably not work as it needs a working http connection and creates other connections like ftp, telnet ... inside a working http connection. Maybe you can configure httptunnel so it uses ftp connections and creates http connections instead, or some other program.
Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
Posts: 1,207
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I run a server out of my house which I've also put httptunnel on and it has full http access. It seems httptunnel runs in server and client mode. So I ran httptunnel as a server from a root session at home. Then at work I ran httptunnel as a client and set up the proxy in firefox to match that of httptunnel. That didn't work, though.
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