RE: Content Analysis

[John Adams]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ron DuFresne wrote:

> When ya disected the TIs proxies, what did ya find they actually did?

TIS' application-level proxies just copy the data over byte by byte, with
the exception of FTP and telnet proxy which actually have a decent amount
of security around them.

Like:
        while (a = readbytefromuser()) {
            sendtonet(a);
        }

The problem with application level proxies is that they are slow and
require a change in internal user behaviour to operate them. They do not
appear transparaent to the end user and they're a bad solution for users
that don't have a clue. It takes too much time to educate people on how to
change thier behaviour to do things like telent and ftp when suddently it
requires a secondary login.

-john

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