CORBA34 — Reusing PASSTHRU

Summary: Description:
Reusing PASSTHRU connections by the firewall should be
expressly disallowed by the specification. With the current wording of the
specification, a vendor may attempt to reuse PASSTHRU connections. While
this will work in some cases, it is not interoperable because there are
cases when reusing PASSTHRU connections will not work. For example,
connection reuse when SSL is in use will not work because all of the
information that distinguishes data streams is contained within the
encrypted portion of SSL packets. If two SSL connections try to share a
single connection, there will be an SSL protocol failure because the server
will not be able to separate the data streams before it processes the SSL
packet.

Deferred

This proposal was generated automatically by request of the Task Force Chair Adam Mitz.