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Re: Comments on Explicit/Trusted Proxy

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 02 May 2013 15:27 UTC

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On 05/02/2013 04:17 PM, Albert Lunde wrote:
> 
> 
> What one would like is something that restricts what the proxy can do
> and identifies the proxy in a reliable way.

Feel free to propose something. All I've seen in this so far
are proposals to allow proxies to do whatever they want.

That's why I suspect any good solution here is really a
semantic change for HTTP.

S.

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