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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml index fd63dc6dea..741f2abaef 100644 --- a/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml +++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml @@ -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 |