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-6cvkctbxernr.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