Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:25:17 -0500 Travis Burtrum <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's basically got 3 maybe 4 use cases, share ports with other TLS > services, enable connectivity from places with dumb firewall policies > (airports, coffee shops etc), save roundtrips. And this is the maybe, > most TLS libs I've seen it's easier to establish a direct TLS > connection than xmpp's custom STARTTLS. There is yet another use case: letting load balancers (haproxy, nginx, etc) support tls themselves and route decrypted traffic to an XMPP backend. Currently, haproxy and nginx don't support XMPP STARTTLS (although a patch for nginx exists with unknown quality). So this removes some burden from server admins. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
