</code></p></div>
<p><var>scheme</var> is effectively the protocol that should be used to
- communicate with the remote server; only <code>http</code> is supported by
- this module.</p>
+ communicate with the remote server; only <code>http</code> and <code>https</code>
+ are supported by this module. When using <code>https</code>, the requests
+ are forwarded through the remote proxy using the HTTP CONNECT method.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><p><code>
ProxyRemote http://goodguys.example.com/ http://mirrorguys.example.com:8000<br />
requests, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> and
<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_connect.html">mod_proxy_connect</a></code> have to be present in the server.</p>
+ <p>CONNECT is also used, when the server needs to send an HTTPS request
+ through a forward proxy. In this case the server acts as a CONNECT client.
+ This functionality is part of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> and
+ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_connect.html">mod_proxy_connect</a></code> is not needed in this case.</p>
+
<div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
<p>Do not enable proxying until you have <a href="mod_proxy.html#access">secured your server</a>. Open proxy
servers are dangerous both to your network and to the Internet at
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>. It provides the features used for
- proxying HTTP requests. <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_http.html">mod_proxy_http</a></code>
+ proxying HTTP and HTTPS requests. <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_http.html">mod_proxy_http</a></code>
supports HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. It does <em>not</em>
provide any caching abilities. If you want to set up a caching
proxy, you might want to use the additional service of the