[ale] Apache/CGI

[David Corbin]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:43, cfowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:05 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > That being said, writing a perl/python/java/php/??
> > program that binds to port 80 (or any other port)
> > and does what you want... is trivial.
> > (ok, you may need readline libs to do character by character..)
>
> Problem is that it has to be port 80 and apache also uses that port.
>
> What I'm trying to do is get around issues of firewalls that allow web
> access via port 80 and 443 but limit all other outbound connections.
>

using a proxy?

In general, what you're trying to do sound very 'un-HTTP'.