[Privoxy-users] Cookies from https sites

Az azimuth99 at danwin1210.me
Sun Apr 28 15:46:18 UTC 2019


On Sunday 28 April 2019 11:33,
Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> put forth the proposition:
> Hi Az,
>
> It is true that Privoxy cannot see any content, cookies included, within HTTPS sites.  If you search the mailing list archive you'll find a couple of described solutions for chaining with another proxy that decrypts HTTPS; there is no ongoing plan to incorporate such within Privoxy.
>
> Which browser are you using? Most have cookie management built-in rather than as an extension.

I mostly use elinks, which unfortunately only has delete and save
buttons, rather than a way of choosing which to accept or refuse, and
I will probably just delete them all every now and then.

I'm wondering if I could script something though - it saves the
cookies into a plain text file I think, and it supports scripting in
perl among other things. I might be able to create some kind of white
list and delete the others whenever a new page loads or something.

> Ian
>
> My PGP public key[http://silvester.org.uk/IanSilvesterPGPPublicKey.asc]
>
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, at 11:07, Az wrote:
> > I have all cookies crunched by default and only allow them from the
> > sites I want to login to, however today I noticed I had a huge amount
> > of cookies in my browser.
> >
> > Am I right in thinking that privoxy can't see cookies from https
> > sites?  My browser doesn't support any cookie manager extensions, so
> > I'd be grateful for any tips to only allow the ones I want.
> >
> > I understand from another thread that some solution for dealing
> > with https traffic is being worked on, but I'm wondering if there is
> > some workaround to get privoxy to see https content that could be
> > used now?  I'm thinking perhaps another proxy between it and the
> > internet or something.  Or would that cause my browser to throw up
> > warnings about insecure connections? I already forward traffic
> > through 3proxy on the web side.
> >
> > Thanks for any info and ideas.
> >
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