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HTTP as a Transport |
- Going "Postal"
- Posting a form is equivalent to a method invocation on an object, but is...
- IOCTL without even a procedure signature!
- Can drive an elephant through this mechanism - e.g. MS FrontPage extensions
- Many believe HTTP goes through firewalls
- Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't
- Firewall administrators were not born yesterday
- Competent firewalls examine the content before passing the request
- From the rational, to the ridiculous
- Extensions to HTTP - e.g. WebDav, IPP, etc.
- CORBA, DCOM, Java RMI tunneled on top
