[Privoxy-users] Cookies from https sites

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Sun Apr 28 15:57:19 UTC 2019


Yes, a script sounds feasible - perhaps something that runs on schedule, parsing the cookie file based on a (set of) regex, so as to retain only cookies that you want to whitelist? 


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On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, at 11:46, Az wrote:
> 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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