Playing nexuiz over a proxy.

[divVerent]

Certainly not. TCP is anything but good for playing games - so even if it DID work, you'd have an awfully bad connection (every single lost packet would hang the game for some seconds, for example). Really not worth it - and going over HTTP would make it even worse than just TCP.

[KadaverJack]

Would it be possible that nexuiz servers could support http encapsulated packets directly without the need of an external server?

No, because Nexuiz (just like pretty much any other game) is using UDP, while http is send via TCP.

[Alien]

I was thinking about smth similar to this: http://tunnel.mrq3.com/explain/node6.html and what about UDP over HTTP (e.g. http://gray-world.net/pr_firepass.shtml)? Did anyone try this?

[divVerent]

It is not even worth trying. You will successfully go through the proxy with that, but have an AWFUL playing experience (bad and erratic ping, bad packet loss). Forget it, simply.

The best quality you can achieve for such a tunnel is probably an IP over TCP tunnel via OpenVPN. But this does not go over HTTP.

[Alien]

Then the only place where I can play Nexuiz is the bunker (home).
Thanks for the help, anyway.

[esteel]

Home sweet home.. no better place to get some frags

[AU]

I can play Nexuiz over a SOCKS5 proxy without problems. You will need a software that wraps nexuiz to allow this. For windows XP there is FreeCap or SocksCap which can do that.

Do you know of any programs like those for linux?

If you still want proxy wrapper under *nix, it's "proxychains" - worked perfectly - I couldn't beleive it worked so good at first .

[Username]

I can play Nexuiz over a SOCKS5 proxy without problems. You will need a software that wraps nexuiz to allow this. For windows XP there is FreeCap or SocksCap which can do that.

Do you know of any programs like those for linux?

If you still want proxy wrapper under *nix, it's "proxychains" - worked perfectly - I couldn't beleive it worked so good at first .

Hi! I tried proxychains, tsocks and some other but nothing work. Can you say in detail how do it? Show you proxychains.conf for example.

[divVerent]

proxychains cannot bind to an UDP port, which is required for DP (which that way reuses the same socket and local port for multiple connections). Not sure if the others sockifiers can.

Is anyone still interested in this and running Linux, or willing to install Perl on Windows (www.activestate.com)? I might write a simple UDP-over-HTTP-proxy application for you to try it out, so you can see how bad it works

[divVerent]

The prototype:

Install Perl.

Download this script: http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... dp2http.pl

Open a command prompt/terminal.

Set the https_proxy environment variable:
UNIX: export https_proxy=http://your.proxy.address:8080
Windows: set https_proxy=http://your.proxy.address:8080

Run it: perl udp2http.pl 141.2.16.23:26000 127.0.0.1:26000 1

Start Nexuiz

Open the Nexuiz console

type: connect 127.0.0.1:26000

You'll end up on my Nexuiz server, tunnelled through your HTTP proxy.

Please tell me how well it works (regarding lag, packet loss). I do not expect it to work well, but if it works well enough for you, it might get turned into an option of the game (but server browsing will probably never be supported that way - you'd have to use the server browser websites and get the IPs from there).

Note: it ONLY works if your proxy allows CONNECT requests to other ports than the SSL standard port (443). Some FTP clients like FileZilla require this to work through a proxy, though, so chances are it is enabled.