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I got this idea today, and I'm not sure how retarded it is.
You tell me.
So sometimes, we get limited internet connections, e.g. at office, which blocks any kind of internet connection other than to a select few sites, and email.
Aside from the obvious ethical (and getting fired) problems, would it make sense to set up an email server somewhere (which you could email no problem) that will retrieve and send over as email a static web page that you request? Maybe even write in a little frontend that will make it look like you're surfing with horrible lag. Hopefully to the sysadmin it will just look like you're trading an awful lot of email with the same (or maybe many, if you have a lot of these) servers?
In short: does it make any sort of sense to surf via email?
10 minutes on google tells me no one has done this particular idea yet.
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Be my guest! If you plan on waiting so much to load a page...
+ Show Spoiler +what are smartphones for?
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there were a lot of so called web to e-mail Servers a while back.
Dont know of these are still around but googling for "web to (e)mail" will probably yield something.
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I don't see why this wouldn't work, but it'd be terribly inefficient. You might as well just use a smartphone and head over to a Starbucks on your break.
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It would be an interesting idea, but I would guess that the risk of getting caught + the cost of purchase and upkeep of such a server would be much more than the 40 bucks a month for the unlimited data plan for a smartphone like 50bani suggested. If you ever do set it up... let us know, cuz it really is an ingenious way to get around a blocked connection.
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Cookies for meeple!
Exactly what I was looking for before I gave up and contemplated writing my own.
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Braavos36390 Posts
lol my friend would ask me to do this, i'd just forward a ton of ESPN articles to his email while he was at work
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You wouldn't really have to have the pages sent to you as email - you'd just have to encapsulate the HTTP packets within IMAP or POP3 or whatever it is that's allowed. Then just set up your home computer as an HTTP via IMAP proxy and let it run while you're at work.
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I run a web server / proxy on 443 (https, virtually never closed) that serves a java applet that does vnc over ssh over https. Firewall/sysadmin sees https traffic, I can remote control my home computer and surf there.
If I am allowed to install software I can proxy any traffic over ssh over https - no need for remote desktop, just edit the browser's proxy settings.
I've never tried ssh over imap.
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