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Re: Talking to a raw SSL Socket (aka TCP/IP/SSL)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:13:47 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Peter Sylvester wrote:

> Sometimes the 'raw' application is behind one of those proxies that curls
> handles quite nicely. One case is a proxy with a CONNECT, many client
> applications support this, since it is simple, but then there are the proxy
> authentications etc. Why not having a little spin off of curl just for the
> proxy parts.

Right, that can be done if you use libcurl's CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option
together with CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET.

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Received on 2006-09-12