alternate shell access

[Gerald Combs]

Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:48, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> 
>>http://gray-world.net
>>
>>Gerald Combs and I were discussing alternate methods of using ssh over
>>odd ports.  Some of the things at the above link apply.  Tunneling ssh
>>over http/https were the main points of discussion.  Some other
>>interesting stuff I ran across while looking at this:
> 
> 
> I take it from the above link that the goal is to make the traffic
> appear to be legitimate HTTP traffic as opposed to just travelling over
> port 80?

Yes.  More importantly, this allows operation through a proxy server.