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arohner on Jan 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Emularity

But websockets doesn't give you raw tcp, right? Do they have a proxy somewhere?

bai0 on Jan 24, 2015 | [–]

Not really a proxy - it's pppd in Linux with a vty redirected to a socket. More like a cloud-based dialup ISP that tunnels over existing connections than a proxy.

comex on Jan 23, 2015 | [–]

Yes, the article states they have a proxy.

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