On Feb 14, 11:55 am, Bruce Stephens <bruce
+use...@cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Rich Fife <rf...@amug.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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?
>
> Start straight off with SSL/TLS. (I believe there's a proposal for an
> HTTP startTLS, but I don't think it's caught on.)

So I do an SSL handshake directly with the proxy and then it
handshakes with the server? If I don't, how does the proxy know what
server I want (it's only in the (encrypted) HTTP header)?

Thanks for your reply!

-- Rich --