Subject: RE: [midcom] HTTP as the Midcom protocol

From: "Christian Huitema" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:16:45 -0800

> The challenge that this group faces is to make a good protocol for
> allowing applications to work with NATs, not to figure out a new
> way to use HTTP.

Yep. In fact, HTTP is a particularly bad idea, because you end up being
bothered by a lot of paraphernalia, e.g. what to do with cookies,
whether there is a relation between the http proxy and the NAT, etc. Not
to mention boxes that will detect you are doing HTTP and "transparently"
reroute your query...

-- Christian Huitema

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