Hello Thanks for the information. Exactly what I needed. I am writing some Perl scripts using Net::SSLeay to test response times from various secure servers at work. Some of the servers are on the internal network, no problem, others are on the external network, accessible only via proxy server. I could rewrite the Perl scripts using LWP, since it supports proxy servers, but I wanted to use delegate as I have it up and running already. thanks, Diana Eichert Network Systems Analyst Sandia National Labs -----Original Message----- From: ysato@etl.go.jp [mailto:ysato@etl.go.jp] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:04 PM To: delegate-en@smtpgate.etl.go.jp Cc: p5maqbdyi-a5crcdwsjlbr.ml@ml.delegate.org Subject: Re: [DeleGate-En] Not working: DeleGate as a http proxy which make a bare HTTP cli ent be a HTTPS/SSL client Ancient NCSA-Mosaic is one of such bare HTTP clients which utilizes HTTPS/HTTP gateway when it is given an environment variable http_proxy="http://delegate-host:8080/" You can simulate such a bare HTTP client using telnet client like this: % telnet delegate-host 8080 GET https://secureweb.sandia.gov/ HTTP/1.0 In your example, Mozilla cannot be set up to act as a bare HTTP client which forward HTTPS/SSL protocol as is to a HTTP proxy. But if you intend to access to "https://secureweb.sandia.gov/*" as if it is "http://secureweb.sandia.gov/*" via DeleGate as a HTTP proxy (I don't understand if such proxy has practical meaning), you can do it adding the following parameter: MOUNT="http://secureweb.sandia.gov/* https://secureweb.sandia.gov/*" Anyway I feel it difficult to suggest an appropriate usage of SSLway without knowing why you need it to solve what kind of problem. Cheers, Yutaka