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Subject: RE: File transfer throught a firewall
From: "A. Ömer Köker" <omer @ superonline . net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 05:14:40 +0200
To: "'Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM'" <Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
Cc: "'Daniel Salenger'" <dsalenger @ dttus . com>, "'mark @ internetstartup . com'" <mark @ internetstartup . com>

>----------
>From: 	Mark Riggins[SMTP:mark @
 internetstartup .
 com]
>Sent: 	15 Kasým 1996 Cuma 00:27
>To: 	Daniel Salenger
>Cc: 	Firewalls @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
>Subject: 	Re: File transfer throught a firewall

>[...]
>How is the firewall supposed to control what is really being sent over
>http?
>This disempowerment of the firewall is most troubling.

An interesting point!  
I was able to pick out machine names behind a FW at our site and another
other site with a little clever Java over http. I am almost sure one can
devise a method to map out a protected site pretty well.  How do
fýrewall metodology be implemented here?

regards,
Omer.


>Mark Riggins
>

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