HTTP encapsulated rsync??

Robert Denton
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:55:15 -0000

Do you mean for example..  Instead of running rsync on port 80, have
rsync listen for requests on 873 as usual, but also have squid
running on the same server listening for port 80 connections, and
then just configure squid to send all port 80 traffic to 873?

Robert


On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Aaron W Morris wrote:

> On 4/17/07, Robert Denton <robert@headsprout.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks, I am hoping someone here can offer some suggestions.  Here
>> is my situation:
>>
>> I am using rsync over the internet for several hundred clients to
>> keep them in sync with a master repository of files.  The rsync
>> daemon is listening on port 80, because most of the clients are
>> behind firewalls that only allow outbound port 80 (and other common
>> ports).  This works fine for most of them but not all.
>>
>> The trouble is that some of them are also behind devices that do not
>> allow non-http traffic on port 80 and thus block the rsync.
>> Therefore, I am looking for a way to use http encapsulation as a
>> means to bypass the blocking devices. I have seen a few scattered
>> queries around the net asking similar questions but I have not seen
>> any good solutions offered.
>>
>> One person suggested that http-tunnel be used but this is not a very
>> elegant solution and I would like to avoid it if at all possible. If
>> the tunnel were to hang or sever then I would have a difficult time
>> correcting it since I do not have direct access to many of the
>> clients. Does anyone here have any ideas?  Surely I am not the first
>> person to ask this question.  Thanks!!
>>
>> Robert
>
> You can use an HTTP proxy.  Look at the RSYNC_PROXY environment
> variable in the man page.
>
> --
> Aaron W Morris (decep)