Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol

Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol(github.com)

35 points by nishit_nm 6 years ago | 9 comments

If you're tunneling SSH through HTTP, shouldn't it actually be "Any protocol of top of web"?

Also interesting choice to use C++. I don't see the headers for Civet or Mongoose, or even libcurl in the Makefile. Is it your own HTTP implementation on both sides?

pxx 6 years ago | |

It doesn't really need to support the full HTTP spec given that both the client and server are under its control... Any subset will do; all you really need to do is respond with a 200 header.

clarry 6 years ago |

I think I've used https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/httptunnel (or another very similar tool) in the past to get around restrictive networks that pass http traffic. That was more than a decade ago though.

txzenwozb 6 years ago |

Currently Webrtc have to go thru TURN servers to achieve P2P calling on few networks,

Can a similar thing be used to send them over http/https and have a js code on receiving side, convert it into UDP Webrtc data, bypassing the need for a costly TURN server

2pointsomone 6 years ago |

What are the primary protocols that you envisioned this would be most useful with?

nishit_nm 6 years ago | |

Mainly SSH, because in my college SSH outgoing/incoming traffic was restricted But it can work with any TCP protocol thru HTTP

t0mmel 6 years ago |

Fun project.

But isn’t this “just” a service bus with another name, that uses http for transport ?

exabrial 6 years ago |

Yes, but does it support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

Mic92 6 years ago | |

Yes, but you would not need it since you could connect via SSH directly when having IPoAC connectivity. The ping might suck though.