HTTPS Proxy Support

As mentioned in the discussion about link handlers and webpage
content rewriting, I once looked into using Web proxy software to
do the latter. One complication was that Dillo doesn't support
a feature equivalent to setting the https_proxy environment
variable for GNU Wget, whereby the proxy acts as the HTTPS
endpoint for encrypted Web server connections and sends the data
back to the browser unencrypted. This allows the proxy to
manipulate page content without needing to transform HTTP requests
into HTTPS requests and rewrite https:// in page URLs as http://.

Besides proxies, for old computers where performance or available
TLS library versions prevent using modern encryption, this also
allows the encrypted communications to be offloaded to more modern
computer. Or using a different encryption library that's optimised
for old computers, as described here:

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/11/fun-with-crypto-ancienne-tls-for.html

For using this with old computers, it would be ideal if the HTTPS
proxy feature was available even if Dillo is compiled without
linking to a TLS library. Also the https_proxy environment variable
should be set to the HTTPS proxy hostname when running Wget for
downloads so that it applies to those as well.
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