Re: Sockets in Jigsaw

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Thomas Kriegelstein wrote:

> Hi
> 
>  Some time ago, there was a question about a SocketFactory for sockets in
> HttpBasicConnection. And the answer was about a ClientSocketFactory for
> sockets used by clients which use "Jigsaw as an Webserver".
>  I think, the original question was about using "Jigsaw as a Proxy" or even
> as a foundation of a webbrowser. (which should be possible according to the
> documentation).
>  So as the ingoing sockets in Jigsaw are very easy to be customized
> (Jigsaw-SSL to be mentioned) there is no way, besides editing the Jigsaw
> sources, to have a similar behaviour for outgoing connections (as used in a
> proxy).
> 
> And now to my question:
>  Is this likely to be changed in an upcoming stable release of Jigsaw this
> year? Is there a chance to have a factory for customized outgoing sockets?

There is already a way to do that, see the HttpMuxConnection and
HttpMuxServer in HttpManager you have a server class, which defaults to
HttpBasicServer.
Would that help or is it not enough for what you want to do? 
Regards,

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