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A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 6 stories, 13 comments · first 2015-03-17 · latest 2025-08-29

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  1. …tries to make a non-proxy connection through it. Another tool that may help setting up is chisel ( https://github.com/jpillora/chisel ). Those HTTPS ones may work if, when authorities connect to the host, it returns pages that look like…
    comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2025-08-29 · in Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
  2. chisel is a similar tool in this space https://github.com/jpillora/chisel I don’t get why headers and requests need to be spoofed if all traffic is over https?
    comment by tomsonj · 2024-11-21 · in Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)
  3. chisel offers the same thing, although I'm not sure if they use websocket : https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by olabyne · 2024-03-13 · in Tor's new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship
  4. Personally I use https://github.com/jpillora/chisel as a reverse Proxy through nginx, then connect through it using OpenVPN to bypass a similarly restrictive firewall. But this discussion is filled with other, similar hacks, I may have to…
    comment by doctor_lollipop · 2023-12-24 · in SSH over HTTPS
  5. …HackTheBox machines or other CTFs you sometimes need to deploy tools onto the machine like these: https://github.com/jpillora/chisel https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy When you deploy them they just work. Compare that to compiled C++…
    comment by almatabata · 2023-10-13 · in Ask HN: What's the big deal with Go (Golang)?
  6. related: chisel [1] does TCP over HTTP [1] https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by derhuerst · 2022-11-25 · in Hippotat: IP over HTTP
  7. …openly available relatively simple VPN/tunnel implementations. https://github.com/yarrick/iodine https://github.com/jpillora/chisel Familiarise yourself with packet layers. Fantastic resource: https://github.com/netspooky/protocols/tree/mai…
    comment by popcalc · 2022-10-18 · in Ask HN: Books/resources/materials that teach you VPN fundamental?
  8. Chisel https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by adamfeldman · 2021-08-09 · in Ask HN: Ngrok Alternative for UDP?
  9. …It wraps an SSH tunnel for proxying TCP (or reverse proxying) in HTTP, which I expose over TLS. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by Just1689 · 2020-11-11 · in Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes
  10. I came across Chisel today -- it supports TCP traffic and isn't limited to 3 tunnels like Serveo https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by adamfeldman · 2019-06-23 · in Serveo: Expose Local Servers to the Internet
  11. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
    comment by cbluth · 2019-05-25 · in VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits
  12. There's this little gem that uses websocket tunnels for all those times only http is allowed. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel A lot of modern websites rely on websockets for push notifications so they're usually open. It works…
    comment by nijave · 2019-02-19 · in Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet
  13. …running over port 80 to get through a firewall? Why not just do TCP over port 80? Like this project https://github.com/jpillora/chisel Edit: above project is also using websockets. okay, i think i understand why you would do this.
    comment by chrisallick · 2017-03-25 · in Tunnel TCP Through WebSockets (CLI Tool)