CONNECT is a deliberate departure from XEP-0332 v0.5.1, whose method list
stops at PATCH — see docs/protocol-notes.md. Without it a tunnel cannot be
requested at all, and the alternative (a private method name) would be a
larger deviation than reusing the one HTTP already has.
CONNECT is a deliberate departure from XEP-0332 v0.5.1, whose method list stops at PATCH — see docs/protocol-notes.md. Without it a tunnel cannot be requested at all, and the alternative (a private method name) would be a larger deviation than reusing the one HTTP already has.