Support connection to proxy via https scheme about httpclient HOT 3 OPEN

@xformerfhs have you been able to get httpclient working with an https proxy with just that change? I was just trying it locally here and while it works on curl, it doesn't work with httpclient by monkey-patching just that to allow setting https proxy config, it hangs and times out.

I'll look some more, but thought I'd drop a comment here in the meantime (I also know this is a 2+ year old issue so you may not even remember anymore :)

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@carlosantoniodasilva: Thanks for your comment. I did not actually try that change. I remember that I looked further into this and realized that I would have to dig really deep into ruby's http internals and I did not want to do this. It was meant as a suggestion to the Ruby developers. I really did not (and do not) understand why one would forbid to use a secure method and only allow an unsecure method.

First I refactored my client to call curl instead of using ruby's http client like this:

stdoutResult, stderrResult, status = Open3.capture3('curl --connect-timeout 9 --max-time 20 --fail --silent --show-error --proxy "https://some.proxy.com:12345" --proxy-user "aproxyuser:aproxypwd" --header "Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01" --header "Connection: keep-alive" --header "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" --header "Language: en-US" --write-out "|%{response_code}" "' + requestURI + '?' + requestParameters + '"')

Finally I switched programing language and implemented my client in Go. That worked perfectly.

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@xformerfhs makes sense, thanks for sharing.

I don't think shelling out will be an option for me in this case, but I might give it a shot as well. I am looking into a few other alternatives in the meantime. Thanks again!

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