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 DobbelsteenReceived on Sunday, 19 March 2000 16:50:30 GMT
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