Thanks for your response. I am troubleshooting a problem on the field where
I see a HTTP/1.1 CONNECT. Just want to reproduce it with cURL.

On 10/20/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Khoa Nguyen wrote:
>
> > Using curl, I am trying to GET a page. Things work fine but I don't
> > understand why the CONNECT method is HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/1.1
>
> There's a simple reason, but I can give you a longish answer! ;-) See
> below.
>
> > Why does it use HTTP/1.0? How can I force it to send HTTP/1.1 CONNECT if
> it
> > makes sense to do so?
>
> It uses 1.0 simply because the original "tunnel through http proxy" spec
> said
> that was the way to do it. And since then I've never had any reason to
> modify
> it to something else.
>
> What would you gain by changing it to 1.1 in your particular case?
>
> I have started work on code that would unify how requests are made
> (CONNECT vs
> all-other-HTTP-ones) internally, and that would/will make CONNECT use 1.1.
> The
> work has stalled though, since it broke ftp-over-http-proxy and it got a
> bit
> too complicated for my taste so I might need to reconsider the whole
> approach.
> And in the mean time, lots of other work took place in my TODO list with
> higher prio, so that job is left pending.
>
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Received on 2005-10-20