Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

SM <sm@resistor.net> Tue, 06 September 2011 21:47 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:48:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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Hi Richard,
At 14:36 06-09-2011, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
>Another interesting finding in that paper was that there were no 
>observed instances of a CONNECT-based variant of the protocol 
>successfully poisoning proxies (on the same sample set of ~54k 
>users).  This might lead one to think that the problem that masking 
>solves could also be avoided by using HTTP differently.  I think 
>that this option was discussed in the WG and decided against, but I 
>don't know why.

See http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.html

Regards,
-sm