From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `url-retrieve' for https behind proxy: 400 bad request
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 12:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161108115818.GB13267@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL53kkLaUYceGsH-23-4h9MhWjjhoBZ8iYBRY1o=jkfUB1jnsQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:18:07AM +0300, Andrew Savonichev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use GNU/Emacs behind the http proxy with no user authorization, and
> seems `url-retrieve' does not work correctly with the proxy-server -
> error "400 Bad Request" for any https url.
>
> Environment variables (http_proxy and https_proxy) are correctly set
> and other tools except the emacs work fine: tried curl and wget.
>
> I've compared url-retrieve and curl requests to the proxy-server
> and there is a difference:
> curl does CONNECT followed by GET, while url-retrieve use a direct
> GET request.
>
> curl (works fine):
> CONNECT www.google.com:443 HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.google.com:443
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: www.google.com
> Accept: */*
>
> url-retrieve (error 400):
> GET https://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Extension: Security/Digest Security/SSL
> Host: www.google.com
> Accept-encoding: gzip
> Accept: */*
> User-Agent: URL/Emacs
Yeah. This is the usual dance for https over proxy (if the proxy allows
it). Basically, CONNECT tells the proxy to just pass the https stream
along, untouched.
> I've tried it with the GNU/Emacs 25.1 and 24.3.1 releases (with -Q
> command line option).
Seems url-retrieve hasn't implemented *that* wart yet. Consider
reporting a bug (Disclaimer: I haven't tested with latest Emacs).
> Is it a bug? Any ideas would be appreciated.
I think so (but see disclaimer above). Or perhaps a missing feature.
Regards
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-08 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-08 6:18 `url-retrieve' for https behind proxy: 400 bad request Andrew Savonichev
2016-11-08 11:58 ` tomas [this message]
2016-11-08 12:19 ` Yuri Khan
2016-11-08 16:26 ` David Engster
2016-11-09 8:51 ` tomas
2016-11-10 18:07 ` Andrew Savonichev
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