[Qgis-developer] proxys, WMS and plugin installer

[Barry Rowlingson]

2009/1/12 Hugentobler  Marco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:

> Is it bad that Qt uses the CONNECT method? I don't know if it's common for HttpProxy to support it or not.
>

 CONNECT is what you use to set up an HTTP Tunnel, not an HTTP Caching
Proxy connection. HTTP tunnels are used to tunnel any protocol through
an HTTP server - such as FTP, or IM, or SSH. I think it's used by very
controlling network admins to make sure *everything* goes through
their central server. I think there was some confusion between HTTP
Tunnels and HTTP Caching Proxy systems in Qt recently.

Quick google gives this IETF draft - there's probably an RFC on it somewhere:
http://www.web-cache.com/Writings/Internet-Drafts/draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01.txt

Barry