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		Eiwatah4 on Aug 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0 CONNECT is used to get a raw socket connection through a HTTP proxy. There'd be no way to get SSL/TLS to work with a proxy without it (save using SOCKS instead of HTTP to talk to the proxy).

dragonwriter on Aug 9, 2013 [–]

Good point on CONNECT; not something I work with directly, but I'm still embarrassed that I spaced that out.

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