On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Paul,
>
> You're right, but this has absolutely nothing to do with outbound SSL
> access through a firewall. This is about "reverse" proxying INBOUND web
> connections that are encrypted with SSL, with the proxy server masquerading
> as the real web server.
Inbound or outbound, it's still a tunnel, and (IMO) calling it a proxy
(though technically it's a transport-layer proxy I suppose) seems to me
to be a disservice to the term, which has traditionally been used to
denote a measure of application layer security.
YMMV,
Paul
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