> 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

Uh-huh.

Look at the date it was submitted.

Network Working Group                                        S. Bellovin
Request for Comments: 3514                            AT&T Labs Research
Category: Informational                                     1 April 2003


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