Re: Outlook and HTTP-mail server

This looks like they could have (and perhaps should have) achieved all
this using GET instead of PROPFIND. *sigh*

I guess a new GET-workalike (called PROPFIND) could be added. I don't
see anything truly bizarre here (aside from the logic which set this up
in the first place)

D

Alen Muzinic wrote:
>
> 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 - 20:59:08 MDT