Comment on Ask HN: upd to httpComments−gojomo17yA shared hosting account might let you run a UDP listening process; a virtual host definitely would.Really, anyplace you have a shell account can probably serve the same role as your home server.−joOP17ythanks you. I didn't think any shared hosts would allow UDP listening, I'll look around for that.−gojomo17yI haven't read the fine print to see if it's allowed by their terms of service, but I just tried setting up a simple UDP-to-HTTP relay on Dreamhost: % nc -u -l -p 59595 | xargs -I UDP curl http://example.com/path?u=UDP ...and it worked just fine. I would think as long as the traffic is a tiny fraction of what web traffic would be -- and occasional UDP packets fit that bill -- they might either officially allow it or just not mind.−joOP17yGreat, thanks. And thanks for the cli paste - I had not heard of 'nc'.
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A shared hosting account might let you run a UDP listening process; a virtual host definitely would.
Really, anyplace you have a shell account can probably serve the same role as your home server.
thanks you. I didn't think any shared hosts would allow UDP listening, I'll look around for that.
I haven't read the fine print to see if it's allowed by their terms of service, but I just tried setting up a simple UDP-to-HTTP relay on Dreamhost:
...and it worked just fine. I would think as long as the traffic is a tiny fraction of what web traffic would be -- and occasional UDP packets fit that bill -- they might either officially allow it or just not mind.Great, thanks. And thanks for the cli paste - I had not heard of 'nc'.