Re: Re[2]: HTTP/2.0 goal: polcy enforcement

In message <em09ef4353-30f0-4c3a-bd0b-f9912deb7be4@BOMBED>, "Adrien W. de Croy"
 writes:

>I'm all for using TLS everywhere (apart from the load), but proxies 
>need access to raw payload.  That requirement isn't going away.

As bad as the idea might be in philosophical terms, it is a requirement
that must be handled.

On the other hand, there is an equally strong, if not stronger,
requirement to know for sure that nobody is doing MITM on a session.

I think a right-ish solution is to have a error-response that informs
the client that proxy-use is mandatory and gives the coordinates
for contacting the proxy.

The client gets a dialog box and can decide if they want to submit
to the proxys policy, or if they want to postpone their activites
until they can get end-to-end-privacy.

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Received on Monday, 26 March 2012 06:03:24 UTC