Hosting a webserver from behind a firewall

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  1. b2tm

    b2tm Member

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    I have this idea, and I want to know if it would be possible to put it to use.

    See, I'm behind a router, but I have NO ACCESS to the username and password, and resetting it is not an option. But I had this idea...

    Would there be a way to create an application (like a java applet) that would run on a remote page (preferably a free hosting service like Googlepages), that would keep trying to send requests to my machine whenever a user visited that page? And could I set up my machine with some other program to listen for requests and establish a connection if this applet was sending them at that time? Said applet could be hidden in a minimized frame on the webpage, so the user wouldn't even see it. A frame on the page would open to display a page coming from my own machine.

    Or could I implement something similar to this concept??

    I use BitTorrent all the time, works just fine, and I'm obviously connecting to other peers and seeds. Could I set up some sort of tracker to constantly have me "seed", but have that connection be used so that external users could access content on my machine? There must be a way to do something similar without having to change my router settings, which is absolutely out of the question.
     
  2. rcrockett

    rcrockett Regular member

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    This would be difficult because without access to the router software, the router has no way of knowing where and what port to forward the request to.
     

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