Allow URL using HTTPS proxies using CONNECT

* lisp/url/url-http.el (url-http-find-free-connection): Allow
using proxies (bug#11788).
(url-http-end-of-document-sentinel): Ditto.
(url-http): The protocol may change from http to https and
vice versa.
(url-https-proxy-connect): Allow using CONNECT proxies for https.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index e6b18bff2ec..6cc1c5ae01c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1225,6 +1225,8 @@ plist will contain a :peer element that has the output of
 programmatically delete all cookies, or cookies from a specific
 domain.
 
+*** The URL package now support https over proxies supporting CONNECT.
+
 ** Tramp
 
 +++