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Explicit proxies are no problem. There are a lot of servers behind proxies. No problem there. There is plenty of client software that can be configured to use
by phicoh 9y ago
Explicit proxies are no problem. There are a lot of servers behind proxies. No problem there.
There is plenty of client software that can be configured to use proxies. Also no problem there.
Where it goes wrong is transparent proxies (also called 'middleboxes') that operate without consent of the endpoints. In general, those proxies have caused so many network problems that most people involved in the IETF will happily see them die.
And the easiest way to do that is to encrypt all traffic.
- peterwwillis 9y agoThere's a large number of web users - like myself - who benefited from transparent proxies. The IETF's complaints are probably almost certainly due to incompatibilities between products and erroneous modification of streams in transit, which of course should not happen. But it certainly doesn't need to die - if we killed technology for that, the whole WWW wouldn't exist.