On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Hague, Alex wrote:
> My reading of slashdot (http://slashdot.org) has lead to the discovery
> of what seems to be a ridiculous RFC. RFC 3093
> (http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3093.txt) proposes a standard for
> tunneling any TCP/IP application over HTTP.
have you seen ip over smtp? *that's* assinine for performance reasons.
> Have I missed the point here, or are there limitless reasons why this
> protocol is a bad idea ?
it may be desirable in the presence of very restrictire firewalls. i can
think of some legitimate reason to do this sort of thing to circumvent a
firewall (ie political or thought control reasons).
its just not high performance.
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