Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply. I hope that it will be fixed at some point in time.
For now we use a local proxy and tunnel through it to solve this issue.

Cheers!

Obaid

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Obaid Mushtaq wrote:
>
> I want to send the proxy CONNECT over HTTPS connection as our proxy
>> refuses connection if it sees it in clear text. I observed that libcurl is
>> not re-using the connection but creates a new one (HTTP - clear text)
>> before it sending the CONNECT.
>>
>> An SSL connection *#0* exists to the subject server (used for another
>> purpose before the proxy CONNECT is used). See the logs at the end. I am
>> using the easy interface for libcurl. Is it possible to achieve what I am
>> looking for?
>>
>
> Yes, I believe that is a limitation of current libcurl. The
> ConnectionExists() function doesn't take into account that a "regular"
> proxy connection can be bumped to do a CONNECT without doing a second
> connection.
>
> Yes it can be fixed, but it would require enhancing an already rather
> complicated function.
>
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