I suspect that won't work well. We are concerned about pre-existing network applications written by other people which may or may not use CONNECT. For instance, Bit Torrent, which is not infrequently run on port 80. No actual web browsers would be involved so their capabilities are moot.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 2:20:55 PM, you wrote: > On 11/03/2010 12:11 PM, Alan M. Carroll wrote: >> Yes, transparently would be preferred. I am not sure what you mean by >> "CONNECT", though -- is that a state in the HTTP SM? Does ATS already have a >> bit proxy? I have glanced at the blind tunnel logic but not investigated it. >> I am mainly looking for hints as to what part of the code I should be >> investigating in this regard. >> > Yes, CONNECT is a standard HTTP method, internally it becomes a "tunnel" > inside ATS. It's intended use is (or was at least) to be able to proxy > HTTPS requests. Most browsers knows to use CONNECT when proxying HTTPS > through a forward proxy.
