GNU HTTP Tunnel for S60

httptunnelHere’s the story :


I subscribed, few weeks ago, to an “unlimited data plan” from my mobile provider. I was so enthusiast that I sold my old Nokia N70 (Symbian OS8) on Ebay to buy an expensive Nokia E90 (OS9), infinitely more adequate for heavy use of www and networking applications.


I quiclky discovered “what’s under the hood” : this “unlimited” data plan is restricted to HTTP traffic on port 80 by use of proxy filtering that mean no IMAP, no POP, no VNC, nor TELNET… :-x

Moreover, there’s an extra filtering on User-Agent to (loosely) prevent its use from your computer by using the phone as modem for example.


I quickly had to found a solution, and the only one available was Tunneling, more precisely HTTP Tunneling, since writing Tun/Tap drivers on Symbian platforms is not possible without manufacturer’s SDK. After some Googling, I found the GNU HTTP Tunnel under GPL license.



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