On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 03:39:30PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Does that mean that (with the integration of Exploiter into the OS anyway)
> a DCOM "client" could send data (I asume via GET/POST ?) to
> www.youknowwhoimean.com without the user realising that it happens ?

Yes, but this is not the reason for this feature. ost of the Distributed
Computing Protocols (including IIOP for CORBA) support the tunneling of the
prtocol through HTTP, since this is a problem on the firewall.

Of course tunneling DCOM throguh HTTP is not more secure than a generic
proxy... too bad...


Greetings
Bernd
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