- From: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:52:38 -0400
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
This was already done: RFC 2817 (and FWIW this is fairly widely implemented for printing - CUPS has supported it for a very long time and many printers support it today) On 2013-08-25, at 3:25 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 09:10:16AM +0200, Salvatore Loreto wrote: >> I don't think we were questioning the possibility to speak between >> client and server >> without any encryption if both parties agree to speak in clear (i.e. TLS >> is not mandatory to use) >> >> The hum, at least how I understood it, was only in favor to investigate >> a way to provide >> from one side equal power to the client: >> i.e. to provide to the client the possibility to require/negotiate the >> use of encryption; >> and from the other side provide to the client the possibility to >> discovery the interposition >> and then eventually interact with that proxy in between. > > OK, basically a user-chosen STARTTLS that the server can refuse, then > the user decides what to do. It could make sense if everyone in the > chain implements support for at least the clear mode. At least that's > my understanding. > > Willy > > _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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