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Re: [RFC PATCH v2] http: support CURLPROXY_HTTPS

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 23, 2017, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID
<878tdts5c0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20171223150215.8615-1-wsy@dogben.com>
On Sat, Dec 23 2017, Wei Shuyu jotted:
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> Git has been taught to support an https:// used for http.proxy when
> using recent versions of libcurl.
>
> To use https proxy with self-signed certs, we need a way to
> unset CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST
> just like direct SSL connection. This is required if we want
> use t/lib-httpd to test proxy.
>
> In this patch I reuse http.sslverify to do this, do we need an
> independent option like http.sslproxyverify?
>
> To fully support https proxy, we also need ways to set more options
> such as CURLOPT_PROXY_SSLCERT. However, I'm not sure if we need to
> support them.

It would be good to add a link to https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/26/https-proxy-with-curl/ to the commit message, since it explains in great detail what this is for and how it compares to what we were doing before.

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> Signed-off-by: Wei Shuyu <wsy@dogben.com>
> ---
>  http.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index 215bebef1..d8a5e48f0 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -708,6 +708,10 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
>  	if (!curl_ssl_verify) {
>  		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
> +#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x073400
> +		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
> +		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
> +#endif
>  	} else {
>  		/* Verify authenticity of the peer's certificate */
>  		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
> @@ -865,6 +869,11 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
>  		else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks"))
>  			curl_easy_setopt(result,
>  				CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS4);
> +#endif
> +#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x073400
> +		else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "https"))
> +			curl_easy_setopt(result,
> +				CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTPS);
>  #endif
>  		if (strstr(curl_http_proxy, "://"))
>  			credential_from_url(&proxy_auth, curl_http_proxy);
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  1. http: support CURLPROXY_HTTPSWei Shuyu, Dec 23, 2017
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 23, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 27, 2017
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