[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmBUR4O9mofxVbpb8JV9mEbVfIYv670uJo" nickname="Justin" subject="comment 1" date="2012-12-23T17:40:13Z" content=""" Using a plain tcp connection would be simpler than HTTP, the sending side would just need to tell the receiver to listen on a port and write any data received to a file(or the reverse). Basically what you can do with netcat. I had a similar problem, but I found that using arcfour was fast enough: .ssh/config: Host slow Ciphers arcfour """]]