RE: SSL over proxy passthrough

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic's patch: This patch implements a first attempt of using the CONNECT method to establish passthrough of SSL communication over non-SSL proxies. This will require testing. I find this wording a bit funny. What is a non-SSL proxy? CONNECT is the defined way to

Re: SSL over proxy passthrough

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: I find this wording a bit funny. What is a non-SSL proxy? CONNECT is the defined way to speak SSL when using a http proxy... What if someone explicitly uses http_proxy=https://...? Or even https_proxy=https://...? Ah, right! *That* is indeed a

Re: SSL over proxy passthrough

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: The bottom line is: should I even acknowledge `https' proxies? I don't think you'll ever run into any. Do the browsers work with them? I don't know. I've never seen anyone use a proxy like that. Does curl handle `https_proxy' or `http_proxy' being

RE: SSL over proxy passthrough

2003-11-28 Thread Post, Mark K
: List Wget (E-mail) Subject: RE: SSL over proxy passthrough For who wants to test that from windows, MSVC binary at http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 fax -Original Message