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tunnel

From Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (1999-06-15) | Glossary for this source

An intermediary program which is acting as a blind relay between two connections. Once active, a tunnel is not considered a party to the HTTP communication, though the tunnel may have been initiated by an HTTP request. The tunnel ceases to exist when both ends of the relayed connections are closed.
tunnel parameter

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A parameter passed to a template may be defined as a tunnel parameter. Tunnel parameters have the property that they are automatically passed on by the called template to any further templates that it calls, and so on recursively.

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