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authorIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2012-09-24 16:44:22 +0200
committerRaimo Niskanen <[email protected]>2012-10-02 09:25:02 +0200
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inets httpc: Document that RFC 2817 is not supported
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@@ -43,8 +43,12 @@
cookies and other options that can be applied to more than one
request. </p>
- <p>If the scheme
- https is used the ssl application needs to be started.</p>
+ <p>If the scheme https is used the ssl application needs to be
+ started. When https links needs to go through a proxy the
+ CONNECT method extension to HTTP-1.1 is used to establish a
+ tunnel and then the connection is upgraded to TLS,
+ however "TLS upgrade" according to RFC 2817 is not
+ supported.</p>
<p>Also note that pipelining will only be used if the pipeline
timeout is set, otherwise persistent connections without