also sprach Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com> [2003.01.12.1953 +0100]: > Thinking about it, what I described above really isn't a proxy but > rather an offload of the SSL part of HTTPS. However, the clear text > HTTP on the backend could then be proxied. I've not seen this done > though. I know this is possible. But you are giving up one big feature of SSL: The authenticity check of the peer. In any case, this is only really applicable to reverse proxying. I want a forward proxy, if at all. > I agree that SSH cannot be proxied, but the big reason for it, You can proxy SSH in exactly the same way. Not with on-board methods, but in theory it's possible. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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