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The problem with "exotic" verbs is that proxies in the middle will often misbehave when faced with them. There is some old network infrastructure out there.

• wizzwizz4 5y ago
  With HTTPS, that doesn't matter.
  • mh- 5y ago
    not really. there are plenty of middleboxes deployed by IT departments that happily mess with HTTPS traffic, too.
  • tedunangst 5y ago
    There are intercepting https proxies.
  • jrockway 5y ago
    The proxies in question strip HTTPS, and re-encrypt with a certificate your IT department installed on your device.
    • wizzwizz4 5y ago
      Those break everything anyway. Nobody should be obliged to support that. … Now, back to reality. :-(
      • jjav 5y ago
        Reality is that approximately every company has these deployed. Not good, but reality.
        • Thiez 5y ago
          Not where I'm from. Is this an American thing?
          • wizzwizz4 5y ago
            It's being imported into schools in the UK and parts of mainland Europe. Cory Doctorow reckons that there's a trend, where things like this start in places like schools and then gradually end up in all our institutions.