wok annotate sslh/description.txt @ rev 20455
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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat Oct 06 15:26:57 2018 +0200 (2018-10-06) |
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pascal@19628 | 1 `sslh` accepts connections on specified ports, and forwards |
pascal@19628 | 2 them further based on tests performed on the first data |
pascal@19628 | 3 packet sent by the remote client. |
pascal@19628 | 4 |
pascal@19628 | 5 Probes for HTTP, SSL, SSH, OpenVPN, tinc, XMPP are |
pascal@19628 | 6 implemented, and any other protocol that can be tested using |
pascal@19628 | 7 a regular expression, can be recognised. A typical use case |
pascal@19628 | 8 is to allow serving several services on port 443 (e.g. to |
pascal@19628 | 9 connect to SSH from inside a corporate firewall, which |
pascal@19628 | 10 almost never block port 443) while still serving HTTPS on |
pascal@19628 | 11 that port. |
pascal@19628 | 12 |
pascal@19628 | 13 Hence `sslh` acts as a protocol demultiplexer, or a |
pascal@19628 | 14 switchboard. Its name comes from its original function to |
pascal@19628 | 15 serve SSH and HTTPS on the same port. |