debian man page for httptest

httptest(1)						      General Commands Manual						       httptest(1)

NAME
       httptest - attempt to use an HTTP proxy to relay to a DSBL-complaint host

SYNOPSIS
       httptest <http ip> <http port>

DESCRIPTION
       httptest attempts to connect to port <http port> on <http ip> and relay through the host.

       It  attempts  to connect to the target_domain mail server directly to send mail, and also to relay through 127.0.0.1 on the host.  For each
       server, it tries all of: GET, POST, CONNECT.

       It works by embedding SMTP commands in the HTTP request header, which are then copied through to the mail server.  There is extra  junk	in
       the HTTP header, but most SMTP servers ignore it.  If a server is open to this type of relaying, it is highly likely that the relay will be
       anonymized and there will be no way to track back the sender (save possibly proxy logs).

       As of version 0.9.5, httptest attempts to use the CONNECT method as intended to form an actual SMTP conversation through the proxy.

AUTHOR
       Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

SEE ALSO
       dsbl.conf(5), spamtrap(1)

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