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Yes, IMHO calling it a Layer 7 proxy it quite misleading. I was expecting something closer to an ALG.
by lttlrck 2y ago
Yes, IMHO calling it a Layer 7 proxy it quite misleading. I was expecting something closer to an ALG.
- gtirloni 2y agoCalling a reverse HTTP proxy a Layer 7 proxy is misleading? Why?
- molszanski 2y agoProbably because OSI never materialized IRL and today they are all mixed up left and right and not how we “designed” and “imagined” it 50 years ago
- allynb 2y agoI think it's only misleading in that the only L7 protocol it supports is HTTP. It's not a huge deal, but when I work with other proxies if I see L7, I assume multiple application protocols.