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Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
- From: Rob Quinn
- Date: Fri Jun 26 16:32:14 1998
> [...] playing with transparent proxying [...]
> [...] We've got customers with web sites that are broken now because they
> can't communicate with things like Cybercash [...]
The transparent proxy from one of our firewall vendors wasn't able to
handle connections to Cybercash. Analysis showed that Cybercash was
doing a half-close on their end of the socket, which the proxy took as
a full-close, ending the session.
Perhaps that's a common mistake?
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