Re: HTTP Connect Requests

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Dan <random.danno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Dan <random.danno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have an apache ssl proxy configured with mod_security that detected
>>> (I'm only running in detection mode) many HTTP connected requests
>>> against port 443. The requests look like this:
>>>
>>> CONNECT www.mydomain.com:443 HTTP/1.1
>>>
>>> All requests completed with a 200, but I can't recreate this by
>>> connecting to the server on port 443. I get "Connection closed by
>>> foreign host."
>>
>> This would be happening over port 80 on your webserver, to perform an
>> SSL handshake with www.mydomain.com.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Covener
>> covener@xxxxxxxxx
>>
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>
> Thanks for the reply Eric. I was able to recreate the request and the
> response code, but what would the purpose of this be? Are there
> proxies or utilities out there that use this method to access web
> sites using SSL?

This is how even normal browsers do SSL through a HTTP proxy.

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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