Re: Web browsing over stunnel
"Josealf.rm" <[email protected]>
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Osvald, Peter made a very clear explanation. Note that your connect statement should be something like: connect=104.239.213.7:443 And you should test using something like: http://www.stunnel.net:8888/ Saludos Jose > On Nov 6, 2017, at 6:52 PM, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:57:16PM +0000, Osvald Brko wrote: >>> From: Josealf.rm <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 1:21 PM >>> To: Osvald Brko >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Web browsing over stunnel >> >> >>> It’s because the web site GETs a request for http://127.0.0.1/ not for http://www.stunnel.org/ >> >>> Just as an academic exercise, you may want to add this line to your hosts file (usually in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts): >> >>> 127.0.0.1 www.stunnel.net >> >>> Then change your connect line to the IP address of www.stunnel..net (now 104.239.213.7 or 198.105.254.11). >> >>> And test again. >> >>> Saludos >>> Jose Alfredo Diaz >> >> >> Hi, >> I am not sure if I understand you right. What this academic exercise should reveal? >> It just try to connect to 127.0.0.1 ...? > > The point is to get your browser to ask the remote server "give me the > main page of www.stunnel.org" and not "give me the main page of > 127.0.0.1". The webserver may have many so called "virtual hosts" > defined - the same webserver on the same IP address serves many > websites; it knows which one to serve by the hostname that the client > (the browser) sends to it. > > Putting 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file and pointing your browser to it is > a widely used trick to make it connect to a remote site through a > tunnel; of course, the tunnel must be established first. > > G'luck, > Peter > > -- > Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc > Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.stunnel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users