When should one use CONNECT and GET HTTP methods at HTTP Proxy Server?

Question

I\'m building a WebClient library. Now I\'m implementing a proxy feature, so I am making some research and I saw some code using the CONNECT method to request a

Answer 1

As a rule of thumb GET is used for plain HTTP and CONNECT for HTTPS

There are more details though so you probably want to read the relevant RFC-s

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt