4.1 Packet Flow and Connection Establishment

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The following diagram shows packet flows between an IP-HTTPS client, IP-HTTPS server, and an IP-HTTPS endpoint.

IP-HTTPS packet flow

Figure 7: IP-HTTPS packet flow

When an IP-HTTPS client is behind an HTTP proxy, the client first establishes a tunnel using the CONNECT method, as described in [SSLPROXY]. Subsequent message exchanges are identical to the above diagram and happen over the established tunnel.

The HTTP request sent to the IP-HTTPS server is described below.

 POST /IPTLS HTTP/1.1 \r\n
 Content-Length: 18446744073709551615 \r\n
 Host: <IP-address of IP-HTTPS server> \r\n
 \r\n

The HTTP response sent from the IP-HTTPS server to the IP-HTTPS client is described below.

  
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK \r\n
 Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 \r\n
 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:51:52 GMT \r\n
 \r\n