From http://httppc.sourceforge.net/: HTTP Proxy Client is the small set of libraries and scripts, which provides transparent access to Internet via HTTP proxy for programs, which uses TCP/IP for communication. The list of...
Ever wonder how applications talk to HTTP proxies? It's simple really (like the rest of HTTP) - there's a simple HTTP request method called CONNECT. It's easily illustrated with a quick session of netcat: $ nc -v proxy.foobar.com...