[Privoxy-users] Requesting help to set up HTTPS inspection

[allamistakeo21 at icloud.com]

> Thank you for your advice. I activated the debug logging, which indeed revealed that the privoxy user didn’t have access rights to the CA files. 
> I changed the owner and group of the CA files, and now it works. 

Actually, I was a bit too fast to report success: it worked on one Mac, but on the other I am now getting a different error message, for instance when I attempt to visit google.com <http://google.com/>. 

The browser shows the following: 

Server certificate verification failed

Privoxy <https://config.privoxy.org/> was unable to securely connect to the destination server.

Reason: unable to get local issuer certificate


The log file shows the following: 


2025-10-17 21:31:35.573 700009a07 Connect: to google.com
2025-10-17 21:31:35.637 700009a07 Connect: Connected to google.com[2a00:1450:400c:c1d::8a]:443.
2025-10-17 21:31:35.638 700009a07 Connect: Created new connection to google.com:443 on socket 11.
2025-10-17 21:31:35.640 700009a07 Connect: Performing the TLS/SSL handshake with the server
2025-10-17 21:31:35.673 700009a07 Error: X509 certificate verification for google.com failed: unable to get local issuer certificate
2025-10-17 21:31:35.675 700009a07 Crunch: Certificate error: unable to get local issuer certificate: https://google.com/


Thomas