RE: Re: ISDN vs ADSL

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

>Hmm, perhaps I can sense a software solution coming for this problem.
>
>I've been doing some work with pluggable protocols for Internet
Explorer
>over the last couple of weeks and wonder if there's some scope there.
If we
>can get _some_ kind of messages flowing backwards and forwards across
the
>connection, there's scope to encapsulate the HTTP protocol within
another
>customer protocol (kind of like a higher level RFC1006 which is OSI
over
>TCP/IP). That way, a pluggable protocol handler in IE could access a
>gateway
>that fronted the web server with the HTTP traffic being encapsulated
and
>hence, slip past BT's filtering.
>
>It wouldn't enable you to publish a web server but would allow you to
>access
>your own kit!
>
>

I thought this too when we established a little while back that we COULD
get
FTP through... but I wouldn't know where to start doing it though! There's
DEFINATELY some scope in this idea.... (and anything that gets round BT's
petty, miserly restrictions is good in my book!)

Paul G.

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