Re: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 draft available

John Stracke (francis@ecal.com)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:47:55 +0000


Scott Lawrence wrote:

> Part of the goal here is to show how secured and unsecured traffic in any
> protocol can share a TCP well known port, so that we can get away from
> assigning two ports to each protocol.

But aren't there security benefits to having separate ports (e.g., making it
possible to run your secure server in a separate process)?

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