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HTTP/1.1 CONNECT method
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joris Dobbelsteen)
Sun Mar 19 16:58:17 2000
From: "Joris Dobbelsteen" <j.p.tdobbelsteen@freeler.nl>
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:00:36 +0100
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Connection to HTTPS through a proxy server is done by use of the CONNECT
method.
Internet Explorer 5.0 sends this request:
CONNECT joris:443 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: joris
Content-Length: 0
Pragma: no-cache
It means a tunnel should be made to the host: Joris
This is on port 443 (HTTPS default port in this case)
How should a proxy respond to this request in case of:
- success
- failure (host not found/cannot make connection (502?), not supported
(501?))
This information was not in RFC2616 (and older ones) and I could not find it
in other RFCs.
- Joris Dobbelsteen
