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   From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
   Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:30:39 -0700 (MST)

   > Host, protocol could be encoded in the port number.

   You have *got* to be kidding!

Hey, I'm not the one who wants to recover state.  I'm just trying
to scam out how it could be done.  You've got a good 15.97 bits to
work with...

   >    > It would be nice to pull out the rewriting stuff into loadable
   >    > rule sets.
   > 
   >    It would be nicer to not need them.
   > 
   > Not an option, though, is it?

   It is for a real proxy.  8-).

"real" proxies are still rewriting packets.  They're just
spending a lot more to do it.  That's okay, though.
The point is to make it work, not to make it work efficiently.