[JDEV] Firewall jumping

Wed Jan 19 13:39:00 CST 2000

Thomas;

Passing on some thoughts about the HTTP service, and asking for return
comments. I am use the symbols <<>> to indicate variable identites and
|| to indicate a choice. This should leave the <> symbol that HTML/HTTP
requires.

My understanding after searching through documentation of the HTTP 1.2
(1.1 pre 7?) protocol seems to be fairly simplistic.  

We have the XML jabber server on the local machine -- A and the HTTP
server on the firewall machine -- B.  It seems to me that the service we
want is a server to server protocol. Then wouldn't we have to open an
socket connection on port 80 between A & B? 

We could restrict the HTTP types to GET || HEAD || PUT || DELETE ||
OPTIONS || TRACE || POST  to keep the variations down. 

Then we have a single type of message body being passed between the
servers:

<<HTTP TYPE>> <<Jabber Target HOST URL>>:<<Port #>> HTTP/1.1
FROM     :     <<enduserid email tag>>
CONTENT-TYPE    :     text/XML
TRANSFER-ENCODING    : chunked
CONNECTION     :     open-persist || close
SERVER     :     Jabber/1.0-dev
{Required blank line}
<BODY>
<<XML information if any>>
<BODY>
{Required blank line}

Mike

Thomas Charron wrote:
> 
> Quoting "Jay, Dylan" <djay at lucent.com>:
> > From the specs I can see that using a client through proxies is possible.
> > What is the status of any effort for a client that will do this?
> 
>   Depends on the type of firewall..  Sockifying a client wouldn't be that hard,
> but in order for a client to traverse an HTTP firewall, it will require an HTTP
> service be developed for jserver, which isn't very far fetched at all, but I
> don't believe as of yet anyone has begun work on such a beast..
> 
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