[Privoxy-users] [privoxy-3.0.33] Can't get https-inspection to work (PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR)

[Fabian Keil]

avoidr <avoidr at posteo.de> wrote on 2022-09-24 at 14:54:24:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 07:39:17AM +0000, avoidr wrote:
> > I just noticed I can increase the debug level... I'll do that and see
> > again.
> 
> Ok, I was able to resolve my issue.

Great. Thanks for letting us know.

> I set debug to 8192 ("Non-fatal errors") and that gave me the clue, that
> my ca-cert-file is misplaced:
> ```
> 2022-09-24 15:09:51.478 7f7078acd640 Error: Error opening certificate
> file ./CA/cacert.crt: No such file or directory 2022-09-24 15:09:51.478
> 7f7078acd640 Error: Loading issuer certificate ./CA/cacert.crt failed
> 2022-09-24 15:09:51.478 7f7078acd640 Error: generate_host_certificate
> failed: -1 ```
> 
> After placing ca-cert-file, ca-key-file, and trusted-cas-file into
> ca-directory, https-inspection started working correctly.
> 
> The issue with my configuration stemmed from my false assumption about
> ca-directory's default setting; the documentation says the default value
> is an empty string. However "./CA/" is not an empty string.

Indeed.

Thanks for the report. Fixed in:
<https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=b53aa7f4f9240308cb6cb09b7a73dfdf7ddcf509>

> Later I also found that ./CA/ is not relative to confdir (which I had
> assumed), but relative to the process' CWD (?).

That's correct.

> In other words, I had assumed that ca-directory is relative to confdir,
> and that if ca-directory is unset, the default effective value would be
> that of confdir, but it was /CA/ instead.
> 
> From my point of view, ca-directory should be relative to confdir,
> unless an absolute path is given.
> Then, the default value of ca-directory being "./CA/" seems sensible.

I'll have to think about this some more.

Changing the behaviour may break existing configurations on update
so maybe we should simply make the documentation more obvious.

Fabian
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