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Re: [TLS] Non-browser clients.

Nelson B Bolyard <nelson@bolyard.me> Sun, 22 November 2009 05:33 UTC

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On 2009-11-21 05:24 PST, Dr Stephen Henson wrote:

> Just to add a point to this which hasn't really been mentioned.
> 
> The discussion of connection logic has largely been browser centric,
> non-browser clients often work in a different way and the current
> proposal (draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-01.txt) can cause them significant
> problems.

Where is this draft?  It's not on rfc-editor.org nor on ietf.org.
Are you referring to draft-RESCORLA-tls-renegotiation-01.txt?

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