[Privoxy-devel] Help needed from privoxy developers to make privoxy work with SSLProxy

[Lee]

On 4/19/19, Whispered Ocean <ec at tasale.com> wrote:
> Hi Lee, yes I am aware of ProxHTTPSProxyMII

OK.  You didn't mention it, so it was worth a shot.

> and been running and testing it
> for quite some time now. It unfortunately does not work well with some
> sites: they either don't render well or don't work at all (eg. gmail.com).
> Something is not implemented I supposed. With SSLProxy the same sites that
> gave issues with ProxHTTPSProxyMII work perfect. In case you have not read
> the introduction of SSLProxy, I will paste the info in this mail:

Thanks, but yes, I did read it
  <.. snip SSLProxy intro ..>

> I think this is an interesting development of SSL intercepting. The author
> is not using Privoxy (e2guardian is his preference) so he is not supporting
> Privoxy in the foreseeable future. I would like to help but am not a
> developer/programmer so coding is out of the question at this moment. Maybe
> some of you find this interesting enough to at least take a look at this?

I did take a look.  Helping to implement a "transparent SSL/TLS proxy
for decrypting and diverting network traffic to other programs for
deep SSL inspection." isn't something I'd work on; there's too much
potential for abuse.

Best Regards,
Lee


> Thank you so much for taking time in this. I appreciate it a lot!
>
> Best regards, Eric Chan
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 21:17, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fabian,
>>
>> What ever happened with
>> https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-devel/2017-May/000149.html
>>
>>
>> On 4/18/19, Whispered Ocean <ec at tasale.com> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Take a look at
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/34535224/
>>
>> I've never tried it, but it looks like ProxHTTPSProxyMII allows you to
>> use privoxy to filter https sites without requiring any changes to
>> privoxy.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lee
>>
>>
>> > My name is Eric Chan and am a user of Privoxy (not a developer). I have
>> > recently tested a software called SSLProxy:
>> > https://github.com/sonertari/SSLproxy. It is a SSL intercepting proxy
>> that
>> > works really well.
>> >
>> > I want to let all privoxy developers know that with SSLProxy, SSL
>> > intercepting and encrypting of SSL traffic will be readily available to
>> > privoxy with minimal efforts (patches). The SSLProxy developer will be
>> more
>> > than happy to give you all the details how his software works. Please
>> read
>> > the information on github for more info.
>> >
>> > I reckon SSL traffic still cannot be intercepted now by privoxy. Now
>> > the
>> > internet is transitioning to encrypted traffic and soon privoxy will
>> become
>> > irrelevant if it still cannot intercept SSL. I will be very sad to see
>> > privoxy become obsolete in the future.
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for your time and efforts in developing privoxy! I
>> > appreciate it!
>> >
>> > ---
>> > ec
>>
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