caching https by a some browser tool-chain ?

Yes, there was a thread on this list where jidanni points to a possible
solution for caching https (IIRR). Now i'm asking myself the same
question....but i can't find this message. And I remember there's an
archive somehwere, but i lost the link. Could somebody help me with this
archive URL or just repeating what this idea was about ?

I've some thoughts about the problem.

wwwoffle can't cache or modify pages received via https:// 
since this traffic is tunneled (that is, encrypted) between the web
server and the browser-- is that right ?

But, from a browser, i can save https pages on disk (with content
directory). So there *is* a way for a user to get the unencrypted
content, besides through the eyes.

If wwwoffle could connect to this 'save as' output (pipe ? socket ?) and
store the content normally, eg simply into the http directory, so
that it can be re-called by just deleting the 's'  from the https://
prefix. The browser would be like a (reverse) server then...weird.

Is there at least theoretically a way for a proxy (or any user process)
to get the 'https' page contents from the browser, without modifying the
browser code ? Maybe a javascript 'bookmarklet' storing it into a
'wwwoffle-write' pipe ?

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