Here's two ideas I came up with for fun programming projects:
#1. POP3 Proxy for services such as Yahoo and Hotmail Yahoo and Hotmail don't allow direct POP3 access unless you pay them, but there are Perl modules for accessing their services in a way much like Net::POP3 does for POP3-friendly services.
So the idea is to make a POP3 server that gets your info from Yahoo and Hotmail and then relays them back to your mail client, so that it functions as if it were a POP3 server and wouldn't give your client any trouble, and with the added benefit of getting into your Yahoo and Hotmail from e-mail clients (not Outlook, it already supports Hotmail, but other clients like Thunderbird).
#2. TCP Proxy I came up with this idea at school. My school's filtering is getting smarter, now they block entire servers on ALL protocols, not just HTTP, so even downloading an offbrand messenger like gAIM doesn't allow you to get into MSN or AIM.
So the idea for this is to make a TCP proxy. Your client connects, gives it the host and port to continue to, and the proxy acts as a referee relaying messages from server to client and back again. Of course, you'd have to use a client that knows that it's using a proxy first, but I'm sure there's probably already an RFC for this sort of thing.
Anyway, these are a couple of my ideas. _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 556 Location: Los Angeles, CA votes: 1
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:
yahoo got smart and if you cant connect on anyother ports it uses port 80 for its connection not as http, just port 80. Also i think there is a module POE-Component-Proxy-TCP whish is the basics to would you shoudl need to build one.
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