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Re: HTTPS requests through a proxy without tunneling?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:42:55 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Steve Bernacki wrote:

> I'd like instead to have curl connect to my proxy and issue:
>
> GET https://remote.host:443/ HTTP/1.0

That's not how HTTPS over a HTTP proxy is done, so libcurl won't do that. It
would totally break the HTTPS concept too.

> Is there any way to coerce curl into doing this?

Not that I can think of, no. If you would explain why this use case is
sensible, then I migth agree to letting this ability get added to libcurl, but
I must admit that I really cannot see how this can be a good idea.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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