Why do I need a HTTP-tunnel?
HTTP-traffic can be passed thru any Proxy or webserver. If you use a HTTP-tunnel you can route any TCP traffic via a restrictive proxy that only allowes HTTP-traffic. You can route all your incomming and outgoing traffic from your site via your webserver and you don´t have to open any extra ports in your firewall. If your webserver supports SSL you can encrypt all the traffic.

Why should I choose tonjac HTTP-tunnel?
There is a number of software programs build for the perpose of creating HTTP-tunnels, both free and commercial. The reasons to the birth of "tonjac HTTP-tunnel" was the following:

• Most tunnel software that did "all the tricks" where expensive.
• The free alternatives did not support SSL directly. You had to use them together with some kind of SSH software and this gets quite complex.
• There were no tunnels that supported URL-routing.

How do I create a tunnel?
A tunnel is created by a client- and a server-side. The serverside is created with the http2sock service and the clientside is created with the sock2http console tool or from the admin HTML interface served by http2sock. A tunnel can be setup for a session or a sessionless communication model.