[nuclear_eclipse]

My point is there are already plenty of pure web IRC clients that don't rely on a local database; none of them (that I've seen) have any sort of nice interface like this does. There are also plenty of applications that will proxy non-HTTP connections over HTTP proxies. Corkscrew [1] also allows you to tunnel SSH connections over HTTP proxy, and you can use SSH to tunnel just about anything else you need.

[jroll]

I'm aware there are other solutions. Compared to all the work I did to properly tunnel SSH over HTTPS (it was a pretty good firewall, apparently), deploying a node app is trivial.