>>What's the conventionell way ? Just thought, that I have to login to the Proxy to
>>come in
>> contact with the server behind.
>Sure. What is not really conventional is to use SSL to connect the a proxy. Usually
>an HTTP agent
>connects to a proxy using regular (plain) HTTP and then uses tha
>I am afraid things are a bit more complicated than that. HttpClient
>always uses a plain socket to establish connection with a proxy. As far
>as I understand so do IE & Mozilla. I think what Ulrich is trying to do
>is to connect to the proxy using SSL, which is quite unconventional I
>have to say.