Protocol Version Exchange: the comments field and an idea how to use it

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Nov 14 05:22:19 EST 2013


Michael Stone wrote:
>> Why have a proxy if it allows to connect to any backend machine
>> without authenticating the request anyway?
>
> Because IPv6 isn't widely deployed yet.

The imaginary use case was virtual hosts with a www. hostname
example, so the backend machines are presumably reachable at least
on one port already.


//Peter


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