[THIN] Re: Citrix Through Port 80?

  • From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:28:24 +0100

Well port 80 will be unencrypted unless using something like IPSEC or some
kinda VPN type encryption.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Walker [mailto:ctxrulez@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 June 2003 14:23
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Citrix Through Port 80?
> 
> Perhaps someone can enlighten me.  We've only ever 
> administered Citrix 
> servers internally, so we have no experience with enabling 
> Citrix through 
> the Internet.
> 
> We have some employees that want to connect to another 
> company's Citrix 
> application, and our security personnel have some concerns.  
> This external 
> company says that they can send the traffic solely through 
> port 80, but I do 
> not believe they are using CSG.  How is this possible?  Are there any 
> security holes?
> 
> Our security personnel also know about Citrix's ability to 
> force a client 
> upgrades and have wondered if other software could be pushed 
> to a client 
> through this mechanism.  And, they have concerns about our 
> client drives and 
> printers being mapped to this remote system.  Do client 
> upgrades work from 
> remote systems and how is it accomplished?  Could other software be 
> distributed through the client upgrade mechanism?  Do client 
> drives and 
> printers map when using Citrix servers remote to your network?

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