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: [patch] FTP --spider capability

2003-11-28 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Karsten Hopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on it ;-) I'd like to put a CVS version into rawhide to get more feedback about the current status but that makes only sense when the next official version will be released before 'Fedora Core 2' as I won't put a beta version into a Fedora

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
I tested the Windows binary against the only SSL-enabled web server outside our firewall that I could think of at the moment, and it worked for me. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Herold Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: