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Re: HTTPS GET/POST through a proxy with authentication fails. BUG#25 related?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:06:07 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Lau, Hang Kin wrote:

> ==> CONNECT www.xyz.com:443 HTTP/1.0
> Host: www.xyz.com:443
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> Connection: Keep-Alive

Note how this is not disconnected by the proxy. This is therefore not bug #25.

> Proxy CONNECT aborted

This is because libcurl thinks the timeout has elapsed.

> Also, if I tell libcurl to use BASIC authentication at the beginning, the
> POST/GET works right away since the credentials were sent in the first
> request.

Well, then it negotiates faster so the timeout doesn't trigger I guess.

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Received on 2007-02-23