> If you want to proxy SSL connections, then you need to use the CONNECT > method to the proxy, this requires the proxy to support using CONNECT, > and for the http client code to recognize that you're trying to proxy > SSL, and to send the CONNECT command first. > > I don't know if there's any support for this in the Apache SOAP http > stack.
Does anybody know if Apache SOAP 2.2 supports this? I'm presuming right now that SOAP is sending SSL data to the proxy server, requiring the proxy server to tunnel the https. But when that occurs, how does the proxy server know where to forward the request to since from what I can see, the destination URL is part of the http header, which would be encrypted. Does it work by having the proxy decrypt the SSL from my client, then re-encrypt using a different SSL to the web server? Seems unlikely, but I'm otherwise unsure how the proxy can know where to send the message. David
