Re: New tunnel protocol

Or, if you consider what you are doing to be confidential (it usually
isn't), don't include tunnel-protocol. Just like today.
On Jan 21, 2015 8:56 PM, "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

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> On 22/01/2015 12:11 p.m., Martin Thomson wrote:
> > On 21 January 2015 at 14:34, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
> > wrote:
> >> So there's room for ambiguity around whether the next layer
> >> (after CONNECT) is TLS or not.  Or do we rely on the identifier
> >> also indicating it is over TLS, in which case what if there are 2
> >> TLS layers?
> >
> > I get your point.  My understanding, and what is written down,
> > were indeed quite different.
> >
> > Does this help?
> >
> >
> https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/7e2e57a48c21be2b68f856b41095800620fc1a20
> >
> >
> http://httpwg.github.io/http-extensions/tunnel-protocol.html#rfc.section.1
> > (when Travis catches up)
> >
>
> No,
>
> Consider that under the new scheme the label for HTTPS tunnels would
> say "HTTP/1.1" to indicate that an HTTP/1.1 compliant proxy "does not
> understand nor implement the tunneled protocol".
>
> The client intent is to tunnel TLS to keep the stuff inside secure. It
> is not appropriate for the HTTP upper layers to expose those
> intended-private details for all the world to read.
>
> IMO, just indicate TLS as the next layer after CONNECT and have that
> layers ALPN (or not) indicate the nested next-layer. If the
> intermediary is capable of peeking at the TLS ALPN value it can do so
> itself. That also resolves security and logistical issues with keeping
> the two ALPN tags in-sync.
>
> Amos
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Received on Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:03:21 UTC