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Message-ID: <200603241032.k2OAWZIn011057@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri Mar 24 10:33:10 2006
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Secure HTTP
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:58:35 +0200, Q Beukes said:
> i just dont want our clear text http traffic to be sniffed
> which has been a know problem on our network a few times.
If the text is something that you give a flying fsck in a rolling
donut about the sniffability, it shouldn't be clear text http.
Do the frikking SSL correctly on port 443 like the RFCs intend rather
than cooking up some half-assed proxy scheme to work around it.
<insert standard "if I had a nickle for every time somebody proposed a
partial solution for the wrong part of the problem instead of doing it
in the well-understood correct way in the first place, I'd be long since
retired" speech here....>
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