[Privoxy-users] How to Enable TLS Filtering for Dummies

Fabian Keil fk at fabiankeil.de
Tue Jun 14 00:45:31 UTC 2022


privoxy at use.startmail.com wrote on 2022-06-07 at 18:38:20:

> using Privoxy 3.0.33 on MacOS Mojave.
> 
> First, is Privoxy 3.0.33 compiled with the TLS filtering option for 
> MacOS users?

It depends.

> Supposing this option is enabled:
> 
> I read the doc at 
> https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION-DIRECTIVES
> 
> I uncommented `ca-directory /usr/local/etc/privoxy/CA` in config file.
> 
> (I have created the directory with correct permissions)

Did you also follow the documentation and generated and configured the
ca-cert-file and ca-key-file and specified the ca-password?

> Then, I put the following in `user.action` file:
> 
> { +https-inspection }
> /
> 
> Unfortunately, according to the logfile, Privoxy still does not 
> recognise this option in `user.actions`

Do you get an error message?
 
> I must mention that visiting `Conditional #defines:` under 
> `http://config.privoxy.org/show-status` page, does not say that whether 
> I have TLS filtering option or not.

That is strange.

Does the table not contain a FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION row?

Fabian
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