www.sunsite.dk/RFC ?
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 May 2000 04:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: rfc2817 (Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1)
can someone point me to rfc2817 -
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt brings up a 404 !
EKR wrote:
> Mads Toftum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:14:03PM -0500, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> > > Any idea of a timeframe for rfc2817 support?
> > >
> > > (I'd offer to help, but I still do not trust the us export issues,
> > > even though I am abroad at the moment....)
> > >
> > > It seems straightforward, though it looks like for clients to support
> > > it well, they also need good support for persistant connections....
> > >
> > It would probably make sense to wait for openssl to support this and
> > IMHO without clients there really is no need to work on this yet. I
> > don't really think we're going to see this anytime soon unless M$
> > suddenly decides to do something like it.
> It doesn't make sense for OpenSSL to support it. It's a purely
> HTTP feature.
>
> That said, I agree that it's probably not worth doing at this time.
> It's not likely to be suported by browsers any time soon.
>
> In fact, if you read rfc2817, it implies as much:
>
> In the nearly two years since, there has been broad acceptance of the
> concept behind this proposal, but little interest in implementing
> alternatives to port 443 for generic Web browsing. In fact, nothing
> in this memo affects the current interpretation of https: URIs.
> However, new application protocols built atop HTTP, such as the
> Internet Printing Protocol [7], call for just such a mechanism in
> order to move ahead in the IETF standards process.
>
> -Ekr
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