RE: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 draft available

John,

We have been over this subject with the IETF Application Area Directors.
They don't want to see any extra ports for security. Full stop.

Carl-Uno

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stracke [mailto:francis@ecal.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 9:48 AM
> To: Http-Wg@Hplb. Hpl. Hp. Com
> Subject: Re: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 draft available
> 
> 
> Scott Lawrence wrote:
> 
> > Part of the goal here is to show how secured and unsecured 
> traffic in any
> > protocol can share a TCP well known port, so that we can 
> get away from
> > assigning two ports to each protocol.
> 
> But aren't there security benefits to having separate ports 
> (e.g., making it
> possible to run your secure server in a separate process)?
> 
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