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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Re: Virus Scanner
From:       Rick Murphy <rick () tis ! com>
Date:       1997-07-30 8:43:59
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At 10:36 AM 7/29/97 -0400, Jerry Huyghe wrote:
>I also forgot the 2nd option (ATTENTION FIREWALL DEVELOPERS! :-)) may be to
>have the firewall send a message to the browser while the file is being
>scanned by the CVP server (such as please wait, checking for viruses) What
>do you think, Rick?
That can't be done by the firewall - the web browser asked for a file and
expects either an OK followed by a data stream or an error code. Without
redefining the HTTP protocol - and getting the browsers to understand your
extension - there's no way to make this work.
	-Rick

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