Support for 'Upgrade' request header / 101 (Switching Protocols) response (as
defined per RFC 2817)
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Key: HTTPCORE-158
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-158
Project: HttpComponents HttpCore
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: HttpCore
Reporter: Oleg Kalnichevski
Fix For: Future
Presently HttpCore provides support for HTTP CONNECT method for establishing
end-to-end tunnels across HTTP proxies as specified in the RFC 2817. However,
HttpCore currently does not support 'Upgrade' / 101 (Switching Protocols)
handshaking, which does not seem as widely used by the common HTTP agents and
servers as HTTP CONNECT.
Adding support for upgrading plain connections to TLS will require significant
amount of work and is likely to call for non-trivial changes to the existing
protocol handlers.
We currently have no resources within the project to assign to this task, but
will gladly assist an external contributor willing to work on adding support
for 'Upgrade' / 101 (Switching Protocols) handshaking to HttpCore. This may
also be a good topic for a Google Summer of Code project or a similar program.
Oleg
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