Hello all,

Hope this isn't a total newbie question...

I'm writing an extension to an existing client / server suite that
currently uses UDP for all of its communication.

We are having some problems with clients that are behind firewalls
that only allow HTTP and HTTPS, so I've created a system where the
necessary communications all take place in the form of GET and PUT
HTTP calls. This makes the proxy think that the client is simply
browsing the web when they are not. Yeah, lame, but it works for
HTTP. I need to implement a version that uses HTTPS as well. I've
got all my certificates ready and it works between the client and the
server if there is no proxy, but the question I'm having trouble
answering is how do you implement HTTPS from the TCP / SSL level?

Do you send an unencrypted HTTP header and then pop over to SSL
immediately afterwards? When do you do the SSL handshaking? Before
or after you send the header?

Thanks in advance!

-- Rich Fife --