Begin forwarded message: > From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout cpan.org> > Date: November 1, 2011 7:52:15 PM PDT > To: libwww perl.org > Subject: Support for HTTPS over proxies > > Currently LWP does not support HTTPS over proxies. I’m trying to write a > patch for just that, but I’m not sure whether the special-casing code should > go in LWP::UserAgent::send_request or in LWP::Protocol::http::request. > > If an HTTPS connection is made through an HTTP proxy, the request method sent > to the proxy must be CONNECT, followed by optional headers (probably > default_headers). Then the client must wait for an HTTP 200 response, after > which it must initiate an HTTPS request using the same connection. > > Should this sort of switching be in LWP::UserAgent::send_method?
I mean send_request.
