Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth Bearer authentication - for proxies?

On 1/2/2012 7:07 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> On 2/01/2012 11:00 p.m., Torsten Lodderstedt wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> general note: I do not understand why caching proxies should impose 
>>> a problem in case TLS is used (end2end). Could you please explain?
>>
>> Because TLS is hop-by-hop (in HTTP hops, end-to-end only in TCP 
>> hops). Proxies which decrypt TLS and provide responses out of cache 
>> are already deployed in many places. Mostly in the form of 
>> reverse-proxies, but corporate decryption proxies are also on the 
>> increase.
>>
>> AYJ

On 3/01/2012 11:17 a.m., Igor Faynberg wrote:
> I am at a loss here; granted, it is a gray area...  Does it mean that 
> RFC 2817 has not been implemented properly?
>

 From RFC 2817:
"

5. Upgrade across Proxies

    As a hop-by-hop header, Upgrade is negotiated between each pair of
    HTTP counterparties.  If a User Agent sends a request with an Upgrade
    header to a proxy, it is requesting a change to the protocol between
    itself and the proxy, not an end-to-end change.
"

The more common case is CONNECT method from RFC 2068, from a user agent 
to a reverse-proxy. Same behaviour.

> To make it simple: At the client, I establish a session key with the 
> server, and then use it for confidentiality.  How is this key known to 
> any proxy?

  "the server" is a proxy.

AYJ

Received on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:19:49 UTC