Can I use http tunnel to ping or traceroute through a proxy with firewall?
I don't know if there is a way to ping a target outside my LAN proxy which accepts only Http requests through a squid proxy... I read somewhere that one way to deal with such problem is to use a http tunnel so that the proxy still sees the request as a Http request. Can I use this to ping,say, www.google.com which otherwise is giving the following error because the firewall is rejecting the request: $ ping www.google.com ping: unknown host www.google.com If so how is it done...? I have installed httptunnel.Any help in how to use it will be much appreciated. No. Ping and traceroute make use of