Firewalls: Re: Netscape & SSL

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Subject:	Re: Netscape & SSL
From:	Chris . Martin @ amd . com (Chris Martin)
Date:	Wed, 12 Jul 1995 20:17:19 -0700
To:	Ken_Simpson @ tmai . com, socks-owner @ syl . dl . nec . com
Cc:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com, socks @ syl . dl . nec . com

At 02:33 PM 7/12/95 PDT, Ken_Simpson @
 tmai .
 com wrote:

>>>
>
>I have no idea what SSL denotes but we had trouble getting Netscape 1.1N 
>working with SOCKS too (running on SPARCstations under SunOS 4.1.4.) 

SSL stands for "Secure Sockets Layer".  Netscape believes that the way to
create secure HTTP is to do so at the socket layer rather than doing so atop
normal sockets.  They have proxies that can proxy their protocols based atop
SSL but I have met no success trying to do so otherwise.  

  --Chris

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