Re: HTTPS

Fabian Keil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.privoxy.user
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"joe" <[email protected]> wrote:

> With more and more websites going SSL, privoxy is becoming less and less
> able to do its job.
> 
> A suggested solution is for privoxy to decrypt the HTTPS incoming,
> process it and then send it to the client.  This may be very hard to do,
> I don't know.  TOR already does something like this so maybe the
> software you need is in the TOR code.

Tor doesn't actually do something like this.

> Good luck!
> 
> HTTP <==> privoxy <==> client
> HTTPS ==> decrypt ==> privoxy ==> encrypt ==> client
> HTTPS <== encrypt <== decrypt <== client

This is already on the TODO list:
https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob;f=TODO;h=49da6ad425cbdea95cb510fc1bca35dea3d72122;hb=HEAD#l54

Fabian

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