[drakma-devel] HTTPS through proxy

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 17:14:25 +0100, "Dave Lambert" <d.j.lambert at open.ac.uk> wrote:

> There was a previous request for this on the mailing list:
>
> http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/drakma-devel/2007-November/000212.html

Yup.  Seems I forgot... :)

> The approach is standard: Use the HTTP CONNECT method to get a
> tunnel through the proxy, and then send SSL on the same connection.
> It's covered in HTTP 1.1:
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.9
>
> I've tested it on my local proxy, and a couple of HTTPS end points.

Thanks.  I'll look into this and will likely integrate something like
this into the next release.

Cheers,
Edi.