On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:06:03PM -0800, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:01:04PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> > 
> > Again, I think you are missing the real problem here. Let us say we have a
> > new protocol to run over port 666 that is actually a Web service under the
> > covers.
> > 
> > Hosting provider has a host that supports the following Web Sites that
> > belong to different parties:
> > 
> > example.com
> > malicious.com
> > 
> > The hosting provider allows any form of executable to run on the host
> > (10.6.6.6) that does not interfere with apache which has 80 & 443 reserved.
> > [This is typical]
> 
> Are there any typical hosting environments in which such executables can
> bind to port 666, while being unable to tear down and replace the
> service that's bound of 443?  What are they?

(And perhaps you were arguing elsewhere in this thread that .Net Core +
Raspberry Pi devices might be an example of this, but it would be an
interesting and surprising fact if ASP could bind :666 on such devices,
but not bind or reconfigure the server on :443)

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