Re: IBM patents tunneling HTTP through another protocal
Telford001@aol.com
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:01:25 EDT
In a message dated 6/5/98 11:53:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
frank@rintintin.gv-itf.unisource.nl writes:
> SSH surely does compress the stream, if you ask it to do so. It is also
> possible to use compression with no encryption, which does enhance
> performance
> in some cases (slow lines, fast systems).
>
> I think one of the key issues here is whether there is prior work which
> translates HTTP on one end of the stream into something else (thereby
> removing the HTTP protocol overhead), and recreates the HTTP request at the
other end.
> SSH does not touch the protocol, it only transports the data stream (
> compressed and/or encrypted).
The VLAN Router in certain remote bridging applications has for years
stripped off MAC headers, sent the data and recreated the MAC
headers on the remote side. Telnet <-->VTAM and Telnet<-->PAD
translation has been common for a decade.
Joachim Martillo