[JDEV] Which to pick, "HTTP proxy passthrough" or JEP-0025?

Matthias Wimmer m at tthias.net
Sat Jul 27 02:10:05 CDT 2002


Hi Hiroaki!

Hiroaki Nakamura wrote:

>- "HTTP proxy passthrough"
>    http://oid.jabber.org/?oid=971&all=1
>- JEP-0025
>    http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0025.html
>
>  
>
HTTP proxy passthrough is easier to implement because it uses a
persistent TCP/IP connection but not all proxies support it.
JEP-0025 is a bit harder to implement but should be supported by nearly
all proxies. But the con are security problems: If you can sniff the
session ID you can steal the connection, change the user's password, ...

Tot kijk
Matthias

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