Citrix Adds SOCKS Support to ICA Protocol for Multi-User NT.
Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. Inc has added SOCKS support to its ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. Independent
Computing Architecture Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform. protocol, as used in its thin-client hosting
software for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . Support for versions 4 and 5 of SOCKS (it
stands for sockets) strengthens the security capabilities of ICA. SOCKS
is a proxy protocol that acts as a network firewall enabling hosts
behind a SOCKS server to gain full access to the internet, while
preventing unauthorized access from outside. Support will be phased in
over the next six to nine months, beginning with the Macintosh client
(already out) and following with Java and Windows CE ICA clients.
Support for SOCKS in Windows 16 and 32-bit ICA clients, ActiveX and
plug-in versions, should be ready by the fourth quarter.
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