curl: catching exception on connect.

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On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 19:44:56 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> My guess is that you have to use HTTPS for CONNECT and that 
>> you have to have credentials for it. (?)
>>
>> Ali
>
> dlang.org should work on HTTP, but not HTTPS.
>
> Also I do not think that when I connect to HTTPS I should have 
> any credentials. It's mostly like issue with curl...

connect() sends a "CONNECT" request to the server, as defined by 
HTTP [1]. This method is only used when you're working with 
proxies and the like. What you most likely want, however, is a 
"GET" request. Use get() for that.

[1] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods