On 02/09/2011 01:56 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> Everybody runs their stuff over HTTP, even if it's wholly inappropriate,
>> because HTTP goes through all firewalls.
>>
>> You probably thought this sad state of affairs was merely a de facto
>> standard. But no. It's actually formally defined in RFC 3093.
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3093
>
> So firewall providers will just have to turn on deep packet inspection
> and we're back to square one.

There's a fix for that too:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

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