Re: RPCs over HTTPS through the firewall

["Volker Tanger" <volker.tanger () discon de>]

Greetings!

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:17:32 -0500 "david singleton"
<david_rh_singleton () hotmail com> wrote:

> Microsoft's Outlook 11 can envelope its RPC traffic in HTTPS and
> thereby go through the firewall on port 443 to connect to the Exchange
> server.
> Is this thought to be anymore risky than conventional port 443
> traffic?

If I understand the "wrapping" correctly, the advantages are mainly on
the client side: works from behind NAT(masq), no open ports for
RFC-Backconnects on the client (i.e. you probably can close them). 

Or did you think of OWA, which (by definition) works via HTTP(S)?

Bye

Volker Tanger

IT-Security
discon gmbh
DeTeWe AG & Co. KG

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