Re: Transparent communication by way of proxy?
From: Alexander Nickolov (agnickolov_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/14/04
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:20:05 -0700
Simply send your packets to localhost and have your proxy pick
them locally, then do its forwarding.
-- ===================================== Alexander Nickolov Microsoft MVP [VC], MCSD email: agnickolov@mvps.org MVP VC FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq ===================================== "Derek" <user@nospam.org> wrote in message news:2t7jcqF1s00haU1@uni-berlin.de... > Eugene Gershnik wrote: > > > I know I haven't provided much detail, but is this > > > proxy idea possible? > > > > Actually you did and this is certainly possible. > > > > > I assume I will have to grab raw packets using > > > winpcap or a similar library. > > > > Why? Your middleware can pretend that it is a server > > and use normal sockets. This is very similar to > > what normal HTTP proxies do. What you seem to have > > in mind is something like VPN which is an overkill > > for your problem. > > I assumed that my proxy process would listen for packets > on a port, package the raw TCP/IP packets as binary data > in middleware messages, send those messages to the other > proxy, which would then unpack the packets and send them > on to the receiving process. But now that I think about > it, the probably isn't a need to use a low-level packet > capture library like winpcap. I just mentioned it be- > cause I had a little experience using it to capture raw > network traffic. > > Thanks for taking the time to reply. It's reassuring > to know that what I'm trying to do is possible.
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