Re: [tlug] telnet'ing to home with Java servlet

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> Jim, why do you think a proxy forces plaintext passwords with an HTTPS
> proxy? 

In replying to Shawn, I made no such comment. 

Shawn was not talking about https, 
so in my reply I was also not talking about https. 

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:45:43 +0900 Shawn <shawn@example.com> wrote:

>      2. servlet serves http pages on port 80

I was responding to Shawn's comment about http traffic over port 80.  

>         Actually, you could just submit the file clear text since it is
>         disposable but I thought pgping it would hide your password
>         length.  If you did, pgp it, you'd have the ANT file decode the
>         pgp file.

People who use https, don't need to screw with their own ad-hoc 
encryption, so Shawn's comments about clear text and pgp only 
reinforced that he was not talking about https. 

Later On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:35:53 +0900 Shawn <javajunkie@example.com> wrote:

> I originally thought of using it over https.  

Shawn might have originally thought it, 
but did not say it until _after_ I responded.