Hi, I'm using wget (with OpenSSL) utility to access some of our websites. The goal is just to see if the web server responds an OK status and gives the default page requested. The sites are a mixture of HTTP & HTTPS. Also most of our HTTPS sites are accessible only thru a proxy (which is running HTTP). All the scenarios work great except one. When I try to get a page back from a HTTPS site going thru a HTTP proxy, wget assumes that the connection (conn object in gethttp()/http.c) is HTTP and sends a HTTP request to the proxy (or conn). The proxy returns a Security Alert page and waits for the client to start the SSL handshake (I forced the connection Keep-Alive as it is turned off by default for proxies). But wget returns back to main() after reading all the headers.
But the browsers seem to have no problems in handling that. So I went thru a sniffer to see how the browser behaves in comparison to wget. As soon as the browser gets the OK response from the server the browser starts exchanging information about the certificates (the packets were in binary and I could make out only some words in them). And after some exchanges have happened the browser gets the actual page from the server. I'm not sure if I'm missing to take care of something's in wget for this kind of scenario to work or wget does not support this functionality as yet. I have tried all kinds of settings on wget but nothing seems to work. Please let me know if there is an easy way to achieve this or I have to dig into the code and add the functionality myself. If I have to add this functionality please throw some light as where I should be concentrating on in the wget code. Thanks Sury Shankar. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and private proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message is indicative only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation.
