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bug#18967: Tramp disables important SSH security features
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From: |
Michael Albinus |
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Subject: |
bug#18967: Tramp disables important SSH security features |
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Date: |
Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:44:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Version: 26.1
> I have some plans for a while to obsolete tramp-gw.el. When I wrote it
> back in 2007, it was the only possibility to have an own implementation
> of HTTP CONNECT tunneling.
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> Meanwhile, putty supports HTTP CONNECT natively. And with ssh, one could
> use a ProxyCommand based on "nc -X connect ...". No need for Tramp to
> implement it itself anymore.
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> This would perform much better than my implementation in
> tramp-gw.el. And this bug would disappear automatically.
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> So let's keep this bug as reminder. And I will see, whether I could
> document these settings in the Tramp manual. There are some free days
> next two weeks, isn't it the Xmas break?
Done, closing the bug.
Best regards, Michael.