Re: First impressions...

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:41:31PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
>...
> forms of compatibility between protocols, and in some cases to get
> through firewalls. (Although, never bring up that last argument in an
> IETF context; the IESG believes, probably correctly, that it's unethical
> to deliberately subvert firewall policies by running a new protocol on
> the same port as an existing protocol.)

btw, WebDAV was designed to use new HTTP methods rather than "tunnel through
POST" specifically for assisting with firewall policies. The firewall can
let OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, and POST through, but block stuff like PROPFIND,
MKACTIVITY, etc. Basically, the person setting the policy can use the method
as a key in the policy lookup.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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