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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com> on 1998/02/27 07:15:07 UTC
I-D ACTION:draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-00.txt (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:26:42 -0500
From: Internet-Drafts@ns.ietf.org
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-00.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Tunneling TCP based protocols through Web proxy servers
Author(s) : A. Luotonen
Filename : draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 25-Feb-98
This document specifies a generic tunneling mechanism for TCP based
protocols through Web proxy servers. This tunneling mechanism was
initially introduced for the SSL protocol [SSL] to allow secure Web
traffic to pass through firewalls, but its utility is not limited to
SSL. Earlier drafts of this specification were titled ''Tunneling SSL
through Web Proxy Servers'' <draft-luotonen-ssl-tunneling-XX.txt>.
Implementations of this tunneling feature are commonly referred to as
''SSL tunneling'', although, again, it can be used for tunneling any
TCP based protocol.
A wide variety of existing client and proxy server implementations
conform to this specification. The purpose of this specification is
to describe the current practice, to propose some good practices for
implementing this specification, and to document the security
considerations that are involved with this protocol.
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