[Privoxy-users] Privoxy proxychains problem

[Fabian Keil]

Thomas Schmiedl <thomas.schmiedl at web.de> wrote:

> I use xupnpd2 (http://xupnpd.org/xupnpd2_en.html) on my MIPS-based 
> router to restream some HLS-streams from the internet to my TV. This app 
> doesn't support https. The author doesn't want to provide a newer 
> version of xupnpd2.
> 
> I try to restream webcams from Skyline-webcams (e.g. 
> http://www.skylinewebcams.com/de/webcam/czech-republic/prague/prague/old-town-bridge-tower.html), 
> which uses https. But it's possible to receive the m3u8-file (the URL 
> including query-string is in old-town-bridge-tower.html) in http. The 
> m3u8-file contains https URLs (ts-video-files, which also can downloaded 
> in http).
> 
> My idea is to use a filter proxy to replace the https URLs in the 
> m3u8-file by http URLs. I installed Privoxy 3.0.24 in Ubuntu 16 with 
> these filter:
> 
> /etc/privoxy/user.filter:
> FILTER: test
> s at https@http at g
> 
> /etc/privoxy/user.action:
> {+filter{test} +force-text-mode}
> /.*m3u8
> 
> A first test worked (URLs were replaced):
> http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8118 wget 
> http://hddn01.skylinewebcams.com/live.m3u8?a=sfvhd515q59ag2lp08o76bdme7
> 
> But with proxychains it doesn't work:
> proxychains wget 
> http://hddn01.skylinewebcams.com/live.m3u8?a=sfvhd515q59ag2lp08o76bdme7

I'm not familiar with proxchains. Are you sure Privoxy is still being used?
A log excerpt would probably help debug this.

Fabian
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