Re: aname_to_locaname vs gssapi svc/host.domain.org@REALM

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:43:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> > Unfortunately, to be able to fulfil the request of a user, Apache has to
>> > read the PHP code and the (possibly user-specific) data which are the
>
>> Correct.  And often that's data that the user should not have access to,
>
> Surely we should not "call http daemons proxies" just because they can
> be used as such. On the other side Nico apparently meant that very kind
> of uses when an Apache has the "user proxying" role, then the term and
> the conclusions are reasonable. Never mind, all of us seem to understand
> both each other and the implications.

I did not mean to exclude uses of web servers where serving files is
not the point (don't forget WebDAV, BTW).