On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Mikael Olsson wrote:

> (And hopefully, a firewall developer is a bit more careful than the 
> average general o/s developer, although I know that there are exceptions 
> to that. But that reflects on proxy developers aswell, so I refuse to
> call this a valid point in the on-topic debate :))

I'd just add that I think these days careful firewall deveopers are the 
exception :(

I've seen long URLs crash proxies, frags crash packet filters, and 
trailing dots beat URL fitlers, null IVs in IPSec...  The state of the art 
is not pretty.  

Paul
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