On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:54:21 -0700, in soap you wrote:

>> 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

That shouldn't work, as the proxy certificate name won't match the
destination server name, so the client stack should fail the
connection.

Cheers
Simon

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