Describes how the HTTP CONNECT method establishes a proxy tunnel and enables SSL Proxy and DRE to optimize encrypted traffic.
The HTTP CONNECT method is a request method that
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enables the source server to start two-way communications with the destination server using an explicit proxy server,
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creates an HTTP proxy tunnel over a TCP connection between the source and destination servers, and
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enables SSL Proxy and DRE to optimize encrypted data in the HTTP tunnel.
For more information on SSL/TLS Proxy, see Information about SSL/TLS Proxy.