RE: Outlook and HTTP-mail server

PROPFIND is not a HTTP method. Outlook will not work with any standard proxy
using this method. Well, maybe it would work with MSProxy, but it isn't HTTP,
and I doubt MS documented it well enough to implement in other products. This
is an example of "embrace and extend". Naughty stuff. I urge you to shun it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alen Muzinic [mailto:zveki@iskon.hr]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:06 AM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Outlook and HTTP-mail server
>
>
> Hi!
>
> In outlook5 there is a new way of collecting mail via http. Users can
> now read mail from hotmail (and similar sites i guess) in outlook.
> Outolook sends htttp requests to microsoft server (services.msn.com)
> using HTTP/1.1 headers like:
>
> PROPFIND /svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp HTTP/1.1
> Depth: 0
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Brief: t
> User-Agent: Outlook Express/5.0 (MSIE 5.0; Windows NT)
> Host: services.msn.com
> Content-Length: 341
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Cookie: MC1=GUID=9046c7fe046711d383cc0008c7455656
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> ....
>
> Upon such request squid returns error message:
>
> ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this before i berry myself in squid
> debugging and source.
>
> I'm running squid-2.2 transparently, in non transparent mode it still
> doesn't work.
>
> Thx,
>
> Alen
>
>
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 18:42:50 MDT