Re: CONNECT command with message body

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Adrien de Croy wrote:

> Another point is that the CONNECT command has been around much longer than 
> RFC2817.  Even longer than RFC2616, in which the method name was reserved. 
> It's a highly important and heavily used method, probably 2nd after GET for 
> most web browsers configured to use a proxy.  Maybe even more used than GET 
> if you count the spammers.  It therefore deserves a decent spec which covers 
> the basics like message bodies.

Oh yes, I remember having to base all my initial CONNECT work on the early 
draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling draft.

> I'm coming to the conclusion that message bodies on CONNECT are de-facto 
> illegal though which helps my client with the blu-ray player.

I agree with this conclusion.

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