> On Feb 7, 2017, at 3:57 AM, Quinn The Eskimo! <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6 Feb 2017, at 10:33, Thibault Martin-Lagardette <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I find this highly surprising, as it is absolutely possible to use an 
>> HTTP(S) proxy for raw TCP/IP connections, simply by using the HTTP CONNECT 
>> method (RFC 2817 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817>)
> 
> Indeed.  And NSURLSession will do this for HTTPS requests.  I suspect that 
> the fact that it doesn’t do this for stream tasks is more an accident of 
> history than anything else (NSURLSession was originally designed as an 
> HTTP[S] API, and for HTTP it can just use the HTTP proxy in the standard way).

[Sorry for the potential thread hijack.]

Not too surprising, since the point of the stream tasks seems to be going below 
the HTTP/FTP/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP/Gopher/etc level. One use is to implement said 
protocols. That’s why I’ve been asking for an example of how to use stream 
tasks; we have no guide. (I haven’t seen any by Apple or on GitHub so far. 
There’s a bug report project on GitHub, as I said in another post, but that 
person doesn’t actually use the class. Correct me if there is a proper example 
out there.)

— 
Daryle Walker
Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
darylew AT mac DOT com 


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