NNTP instead of mail

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.u-net.com
Tue Mar 8 18:09:51 CST 2005


On Mar 8 2005, 22:09, Jules Richardson wrote:

> Lots of corporate entities will have transparent web proxies
> intercepting port 80 though. I'm not sure how clever they are - do
they
> intercept *all* port 80 traffic then either process it or fail, or do
> they pass through non-HTTP traffic on port 80 as though it was never
> touched by the proxy at all? I imagine both types exist, at least.

Most that I know of interpret the traffic, so NNTP on port 80 would
fail on those.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York


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