Re: [certid] review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-09

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Fri, 24 September 2010 05:14 UTC

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On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 03:48 +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
> Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > 
> > [...] For example the user may trust a dedicated discovery service
> > or identity service that securely redirects requests from the source
> > to a target domain.  
> 
> Thinking about it, I feel slightly uneasy about some redirects, such as
> https://gmail.com  -> 301 ->  https://mail.google.com/mail

The point from the draft was about a service that maps source domains to
target domains.  A HTTP redirect is different: it is an instruction to
restart the process with a new source domain.

-- 
Matt