René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"HTTPS proxy support with curl","articleBody":"### Reproduction steps\r\nConfigured a local squid instance to run https with a self signed cert.\r\nPassed this https url for the proxy settings and attempting a clone a github repo \r\n### Expected behavior\r\nConnection should establish through proxy and allow cloning.\r\n### Actual behavior\r\ncode is quitting with the exception:\r\n\"curl socket is no longer valid\"\r\n### Version of libgit2 (release number or SHA1)\r\nlibgit2 version 0.25.1\r\n### Operating system(s) tested\r\ncentos-release-6-8.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64\r\n\r\nI couldn't find anywhere which stated whether https proxies are supported at this point in time or not. Is this simple a limitation of libgit right now?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/FatalEnigma","@type":"Person","name":"FatalEnigma"},"datePublished":"2018-02-07T10:30:16.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/4515/libgit2/issues/4515"}