First of all, hello again - I've just rejoined the list after a year or two absence. I subscribed in 1996, I think just a while after bpl11 had been released, and I now notice that 3.1 has been released! So fair play and congrats to Jeremy, Alex, George and Daniel for all the hard work. Now thats over with, let's get to the signal rather than the noise :) I was thinking recently about how many people can't play MUDs cause they're behind a firewall, in college or work mainly. What I'm wondering is, would it be feasible to create a sort of mini daemon which handles TCP connections to port 80, and if its a HTTP request forward it to apache (or whatever) on port 81, otherwise to a MUD on port 4000. I confess to knowing very little about TCP/IP, but I'd presume then that any output from 4000/81 would have to go back out through 80. Is this possible without a huge amount of work? I can see it being a lot more feasible if the MUD itself were to just run on port 80 and parse any incoming communication for a HTTP request. The MUD could then just serve back whatever file, thus making the MUD itself a very small HTTP server. You would of course lose all the features of a proper daemon such as Apache then though. I dunno really, its just the random thought of the day. If it were possible, it would greatly expand a MUDs potential playerbase, without compromising by having no webserver. Perhaps someone with more network coding experience will be able to help. Thanks, Raf -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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