Proxy lore ?

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From: Ian Smith
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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Hello,

Can anybody enlighten me about the command format mainstream 
browsers use to call a proxy server ?

I'm (reluctantly) putting a proxy server option into John Washington's 
KA9Q HTTP client and the command format I'm testing is:

GET proxy_server:port full_URL HTTP/1.0

which appears to work and so far as I can see is all that's required 
with HTTP/1.0 (the HTTP/1.0 RFC is a bit spare with the proxy info), but 
when I did a trace on what Netscape 2.0 sent it didn't appear to include 
the proxy name at all so I wondered if there was a better way (or if I'd 
screwed up the Netscape config/trace :)

Ian.
-- 

  |  Ian Smith             |  "The Moving Finger writes;
  |  ian@isis.demon.co.uk  |   and, having writ, Moves on."

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