"Paul D. Robertson" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mikael Olsson wrote:
>
> > Also note that applications do not automagically become
> > immune to URG problems if behind a proxy. There are cases
> > where the proxy forwards the urgent signals.
>
> The proxy should only do URG where the application allows it- and it
> should be an URG-hanlding application (such as FTP). Even in that case,
> most proxies don't relay URG, they create their own URG data as the
> client, or receive it as the server (which is significantly different than
> forwarding it.)
I think this is pretty much what I said? :)
"There are cases where the proxy forwards the urgent signal".
FTP would be such a case. Telnet is another one.
And, yes, "forward" was maybe a poor choice of words in this context,
even though I said "the urgent signal" as opposed to "the URG flag"
or "the URG-flagged packet". "Relay" would have been more appropriate.
My bad.
/Mike
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