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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-luotonen-ssl-tunneling-01.txt

From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199511090413.UAA14930@netscape.com>
To: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com

> I see only one unresolved case:
> how to deal with multiple firewalls?

The SSL Tunneling I-D applies identically to connections between a
client and a proxy, and between two proxies.  The inner proxy then
acts as a client to the outer proxy.

This functionality of going through multiple firewalls is actually
already available in Netscape Proxy Server.

Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen				ari@netscape.com
Netscape Communications Corp.		http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/
501 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA		Netscape Server Development Team
Received on Wednesday, 8 November 1995 20:16:52 UTC

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