On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, David Lang wrote: > doing strong authentication for http/https is far from simple.
It depends- if you're into something like proxy-pass (basically reframing a site) and you do persistant https to the proxy, then it's not that difficult to do- if you want transparancy, or full off-the-shelf browser functionality, then it's more difficult. > > There are some proxy projects around- I'm not sure how strong any of the > > auth stuff is though. These days you can almost get away with just > > supporting http/https though. > > only if what you are trying to support is internet access, for internal > firewalls you end up needing a lot more. I didn't last time I did it as a WAN solution- http/https for "intranet servers," https was fine for Lotus Notes as well, we added SMTP as I recall, and had some non-notes replication over HTTP upload/download with some custom code. Obviously YMMV. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
