Why FreeBSD fetch does not download a file via a proxy for HTTPS URLS (the same works fine for HTTP urls)

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:49:06 +0530
chandra reddy <creddym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on a project where i need to download a file via a proxy
> server using HTTPS protocol. I found that fetch does not work/support
> HTTPS requests over a proxy.

I just checked and neither do wget nor curl.


> I could overcome the above problem if I do the following change.
> 
>                    1375:
> 1.58
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/http.c#rev1.58>
> des      1376:        if (purl) { 1.51
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/http.c#rev1.51>
> des      1377:                URL = purl;
> 

I don't think that would work, presumably it would just cause an
attempt at an ssl connection to the proxy, followed by a GET request
for an https URL. https through a proxy is supposed to use a CONNECT to
tunnel through to the actual server.