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Subject: Re: Notes from Usenix Firewall BOF
From: Ken Hardy <ken @ bridge . com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 20:03:33 -0500
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com, crow!rik @ uunet . uu . net

Rik Farrow <rik @
 uworld .
 com> wrote:
>proxy talk in html (Hyper text markup language), proxy is really
>acting as a converter between html and ftp in this example.

A minor point, but the various entities talk in HTTP (HyperText
Transfer Protocol).  HTML is _one_ of the content-types that can be
transported (it's basically a MIME transport protocol.)  HTML documents
contains the URLs which Mosaic (or Lynx or Cello, or whatever browser)
"executes" when the user clicks on the associated hot spot.

-KH

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