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

[Hannes Hörl]

Hi

On 11/13/2013 07:22 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:

> 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.

No. I thought of the case, where the backend machines are not reachable 
from the outside, but http goes through haproxy or something similar.
So from the outside hostnames point to the proxy, but on the internal 
network they resolve to their internal IPs.

Hannes