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    From Martin Kazmaier@1:340/1101 to All on Sun May 14 11:07:00 2023
    I'd love to run ftelnet with ftelnetproxy and https, but can't find any documentation on how to do this. Setting up http seems easy enough, but I'd like to have a secure connection to a proxy running on my local system, then telnet through in my local network to the bbs. I'd love to see a working example of ftelnet widget settings and ftelnetproxy.ini settings under
    Windows.

    Thanks! I've been trying to contact Rick Parrish for assistance with this by sending contact messages via the ftelnet web page, but haven't heard from him yet so I was really hoping someone with this working could be of assistance.

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (telnet, pop3, ftp, nntp)
    (ports 23, 110, 21, 119) shsbbs.ddns.net (shoutcast at 8000)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere shsbbs.ddns.net (1:340/1101)
  • From Joe Phigan@1:305/3 to Martin Kazmaier on Sat May 20 09:04:50 2023
    I'd love to run ftelnet with ftelnetproxy and https, but can't find any documentation on how to do this. Setting up http seems easy enough, but

    I've got it set up following the instructions on the ftelnet website along with grabbing the code generated by his form. You will need an SSL certificate on both the web server and the proxy server, and a self-signed one did not work for me. Had to get one from letsencrypt. At the moment I am connected from a MacSE so it's not very easy to get access to my configs to paste here. If you want, email me on my board and I can try to help. It's at penisys.online:6502, or you can see the ftelnet client at https://penisys.online

    ... Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: 8-Bit Boyz BBS! -=[ bbs.8bitboyz.com port:6502 ]=- (1:305/3)
  • From Gary McCulloch@1:154/50 to All on Sun Jun 11 18:08:20 2023
    I was able to set up my own proxy, but it is not secure. You can view it at www.rofbbs.com

    * ACIS Member. AmigaNet ArakNet C=Net FidoNet PiNet RetroNet
    --- CNet/5
    * Origin: call.rofbbs.com ports 6800 6400 8502 / (423) 541-8271 (1:154/50)
  • From Shurato@1:340/1101 to Joe Phigan on Sun Jun 11 04:44:00 2023
    I followed the instructions and your suggestions without any more success
    than I'd previously had. I followed Ioram Sette's suggestion and installed Websockify. That worked great and supported the SSL certificate. Now everything except for ftelnet itself is run internally through SSL. I'm sure people will feel a lot more comfortable now, if they care about their BBS traffic being sniffed (which is rather unlikely to happen, or cause anything
    to be concerned about if it were to occur).

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    Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS (Telnet, FTP, NNTP, Shoutcast) shsbbs.ddns.net port 23, 21, 119 and 8000 respectively.


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (1:340/1101)
  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Shurato on Mon Jun 12 20:50:36 2023
    On 11 Jun 23 04:44:00, Shurato said the following to Joe Phigan:

    Websockify. That worked great and supported the SSL certificate. Now everything except for ftelnet itself is run internally through SSL. I'm sur people will feel a lot more comfortable now, if they care about their BBS traffic being sniffed (which is rather unlikely to happen, or cause anything to be concerned about if it were to occur).

    This topic comes up every few years or so and sometimes ends up a wildly silly debate on the secure-factor... for a technology never designed for it.

    If someone wants to jump through hoops to get SSL working for a BBS thats
    fine, but no caller I've ever encountered in 30+ years ever cared about the encryption of the connection.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Martin Kazmaier@1:340/1101 to Gary McCulloch on Wed Jun 14 21:27:00 2023

    I was able to set up my own proxy, but it is not secure. You can
    view it at www.rofbbs.com

    Yeah, I don't know why I had so much trouble with the proxy. Websockify
    works great, though and was a lot easier to setup.

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (telnet, pop3, ftp, nntp)
    (ports 23, 110, 21, 119) shsbbs.net


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (1:340/1101)
  • From Joe Phigan@1:305/3 to Shurato on Thu Jun 22 10:41:28 2023
    installed Websockify. That worked great and supported the SSL

    Nice, glad you were able to get it working. I'll check out what Websockify is.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: 8-Bit Boyz BBS! -=[ bbs.8bitboyz.com port:6502 ]=- (1:305/3)