Re: Http proxy in nsISocketTransportService

On 1/3/2012 2:36, Piotr Kuśka wrote:
> 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.

You misunderstood me - I meant not using HTTP channel at all, instead 
directly using nsISocketTransport and sending a CONNECT request by hand.

-christian
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