Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:51:32 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD fetch does not download a file via a proxy for HTTPS URLS (the same works fine for HTTP urls) Message-ID: <20110224105132.69d074f7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikNiv4NkvK%2B2Ntb7FecdQk6i95Z3OFG9iu_SMJc@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikNiv4NkvK%2B2Ntb7FecdQk6i95Z3OFG9iu_SMJc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:49:06 +0530 chandra reddy <creddym@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on a project where i need to download a file via a proxy > server using HTTPS protocol. I found that fetch does not work/support > HTTPS requests over a proxy. I just checked and neither do wget nor curl. > I could overcome the above problem if I do the following change. > > 1375: > 1.58 > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/http.c#rev1.58>; > des 1376: if (purl) { 1.51 > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/http.c#rev1.51>; > des 1377: URL = purl; > I don't think that would work, presumably it would just cause an attempt at an ssl connection to the proxy, followed by a GET request for an https URL. https through a proxy is supposed to use a CONNECT to tunnel through to the actual server.
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