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updated protobuf-python again (2.4.1 -> 3.8.0)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Wed Jun 12 13:51:36 2019 +0100 (2019-06-12) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/sslh/description.txt Wed Jun 12 13:51:36 2019 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ 1.4 +`sslh` accepts connections on specified ports, and forwards 1.5 +them further based on tests performed on the first data 1.6 +packet sent by the remote client. 1.7 + 1.8 +Probes for HTTP, SSL, SSH, OpenVPN, tinc, XMPP are 1.9 +implemented, and any other protocol that can be tested using 1.10 +a regular expression, can be recognised. A typical use case 1.11 +is to allow serving several services on port 443 (e.g. to 1.12 +connect to SSH from inside a corporate firewall, which 1.13 +almost never block port 443) while still serving HTTPS on 1.14 +that port. 1.15 + 1.16 +Hence `sslh` acts as a protocol demultiplexer, or a 1.17 +switchboard. Its name comes from its original function to 1.18 +serve SSH and HTTPS on the same port.