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   Barry Margolin to cmic@live.fr   
   Re: recognize https stream   
   19 Sep 11 21:50:10   
   
   3f2853c3   
   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <27b2c6a1-cc91-409c-ab32-b2d0c9ae1c10@d41g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,   
    "michel marcon (aka cmic)"  wrote:   
      
   > Hello.   
   >   
   > I want to know which king of protocol is encapsulated in HTTPS. HTPPS   
   > "normal" stream is used for bank transaction, e-commerce or whatever.   
   > But you can tunnel SSH inside HPPS for example (whith corkscrew for   
   > example).. How come I can detect what is "inside" the HTTPS stream ?   
      
   You can't without decrypting it.  And even then, it really just depends   
   on what kind of server you're connecting to.  There's nothing that   
   identifies the encapsulated data, it's whatever the client and server   
   choose to do.   
      
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   Barry Margolin   
   Arlington, MA   
      
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