On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:47:06PM +0530, shantanu garg wrote:
> is it still applied for safe transactions ? could some one tell me about
some recent developments about this or may be a site that utilises
it. i have tried to find out...
[Your word wrap didn't]
S-http???? There's one I haven't heard of for years...
I was under the impression YEARS AGO that s-http died an ugly
and inglorious death through neglect and indifference as a direct result
of the greed and possesiveness of its keepers, owners, and promoters (who
didn't). The standard was withheld from the public view and you had to
pay major money to the consortium (conspiracy? monopoly?) to even get a
glimpse of the "standard" (which it never became) and then were under an NDA
to never divulge the secret. Real developers avoided it like the plague and
it withered and died on the vine. It had some features which may have
been, arguably, superior to https but we will never know, now, thanks
to the people who controlled s-http and strangled the development unto
it's doom. They got what they deserved. A still-born that was a direct
result of their own myoptic mindset and optical rectitus.
Back in the days where s-http and https were considered
(by some) to be equally qualified competetors and potentially viable,
I actually looked into doing something with s-https. After looking
at the money I would have to fork out and the hoops I would have to
jump through and the shackles it would impose upon me (I had two of the
first 6 non-Netscape SSL enabled web servers in the US using SSLeay before
Ben Laurie released Apache-SSL and before mod-ssl) I had to wonder what
drugs these people were on and where I could buy some. They were
obviously not connected with reality.
Answer... It's dead, Fred. If it was a living thing, the people
who created it would be criminally liable for negligent homicide or, at
least, curelty to animals. They killed it. They did it to it and
themselves. If it were only that they learned... But, I fear, not...
> shantanu
Mike
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