On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Peter Eckersley <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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)


The issue is that in a multi hosting environment, port 443 is managed by
the system and a hosted  Web service can only bind to a specific
port/hostname combination as a result. The hosted service gets a *share* of
port 443 while on any other port it gets the raw TCP/IP stream.
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