On 7/27/2010 10:54 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: >> Wait - they can connect to our publisher: otherwise the Internet >> wouldn't be much use from behind NAT. It's just making connections back >> to them that's difficult. >> > Of course they can connect to the publisher but there is no way for > your application code to authenticate those connections. > Ah - that's where initially treating the socket as a REQ/REP came in: they would connect to me, send me their authentication data, and if that's accepted, then I would move that underlying socket to the members of my middle-level pub/sub pair (with me as pub, them as sub).
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