Firewalls: Re: Blocking non-http (executable) content

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Subject:	Re: Blocking non-http (executable) content
From:	peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Date:	Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:49:21 -0500 (CDT)
To:	Russ . Cooper @ RC . Toronto . on . ca (Russ)
Cc:	Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, DCOM @ Listserv . msn . com, markry @ microsoft . com
In-reply-to:	<c=US%a=_%p=Toronto%l=MAIL-960830152052Z-22 @ mail . rc . toronto . on . ca> from "Russ" at Aug 30, 96 11:20:52 am

> HTTP is not a transport protocol, IP is, and your statement
> proves that you see HTTP as a transport protocol. HTTP doesn't have any
> mechanisms to deal with differentiating traffic types as IP does.

Um, yeh, actually Russ... it does. The problem is that browsers ignore
these tags if they're inconvenient, so in practice they're only marginally
useful.

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