HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Denton
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

Re: HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Aaron W Morris
On 4/17/07, Robert Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Denton
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

Re: HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Aaron W Morris
On 4/17/07, Robert Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Denton
This is an interesting idea. Here is what I am trying: I have set up squid to listen on port 81, since rsync on the same machine is already listening for requests on 80. I have set the RSYNC_PROXY env var to the hostname:81 and rand a quick test. The result is that I am getting this

Re: HTTP encapsulated rsync??

2007-04-17 Thread Aaron W Morris
On 4/17/07, Robert Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an interesting idea. Here is what I am trying: I have set up squid to listen on port 81, since rsync on the same machine is already listening for requests on 80. I have set the RSYNC_PROXY env var to the hostname:81 and rand a quick