Re: Http proxy in nsISocketTransportService

Piotr Kuśka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
W dniu 2011-12-28 18:47, Christian Biesinger pisze:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Piotr Kuśka<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I've tried this approach already, but it wouldn't work with proxy
>> authentication (I would have to rewrite the proxy authentication code).
>> Also, I wouldn't be able to make a connection to an unsecureproxy and then
>> upgrade it to ssl.
>> I tried to modify nsHttpChannel, nsHttpTransaction and nsHttpConnection o
>> achieve the desired goal, but with no success.
>
> True, authentication is a problem. You may want to look at the
> websocket code, which has solved that problem too. Upgrading to SSL
> would actually work, if you use the "starttls" socket type and then
> call nsISSLSocketControl::StartTLS once you want to initiate SSL. You
> can get the socket control object from
> nsISocketTransport::GetSecurityInfo.
>
> -christian

I tried to do that as well, but the problem is that the server I connect 
to sends data over the socket once the connection is established. The 
data is then interpreted as content of the HTTP OK reply from proxy in 
nsHttpTransaction and it is too late to call StartTLS.
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