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

[Ian Silvester]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, at 20:45, Fabian Keil wrote:
> 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.

I can confirm that the MacOS installer supplied by this project enables the compile-time option. As per documentation, you can confirm this in an individual case by browsing to http://config.privoxy.org/show-status and searching for FEATURE_HTTPS_INSPECTION.

Ian

>> 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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