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[ANN] no-https.perl 0.11: redirects-eating plain-HTTP to HTTPS proxy

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	[Cross-posting to news:comp.os.linux.misc, and news:comp.misc,
	as the topic was recently discussed there.  I kindly request
	for the discussion of this software to take place at
	news:comp.infosystems.www.misc; Followup-To: set accordingly.]

	I'm pleased to announce the availability of No-HTTPS plain-HTTP
	to HTTPS proxy version 0.11 (2018.laX_1Q2f) [1], which can now
	be obtained from the news:alt.sources newsgroup.

	This version represents an early beta stage of the code
	development and comes with an extensive list of known bugs and
	limitations.  In particular, POST requests can now only be
	transparently forwarded to HTTPS servers if 100 Continue
	response is emitted by the server (which excludes HTTP/1.0
	clients, such as Lynx.)

	Also, references to https: resources in the forwarded documents
	are not replaced accordingly.  The code, however, is believed to
	provide all the necessary hooks to allow for implementing
	arbitrary content modifications as external Perl modules.  An
	example client-side JavaScript program for GreaseMonkey/Firefox
	to remove leading https: from HTML href attributes (resulting in
	protocol-relative //example.com/ URIs) is provided in the
	documentation as well.

	The proxy is written in Perl 5 and apart of a reasonably recent
	version thereof also requires the following packages:
	common::sense, Data::Dump (primarily for --debug), the recently
	released HTTP1::MessageStream 0.4 (2018.9F_zSLb1) [2], and URI.

	The code optionally makes use of the IO::Socket::IP and
	IO::Socket::SSL modules to make outgoing connections.  If not
	available, or to otherwise augment the operation of No-HTTPS,
	IO::Socket::UNIX and POSIX can be used instead, alongside an
	external command, such as socat(1).

	The no-https.perl file is available under the terms of
	GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
	Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
	option) any later version; see http://gnu.org/licenses/.

	The accompanying README (including several examples) is
	available under CC0 Public Domain Dedication 1.0; see
	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

[1] no-https.perl 0.11: redirects-eating plain-HTTP to HTTPS proxy
    news:87r2h5tr8d.fsf@siamics.net (source)
[2] HTTP1/MessageStream.pm 0.4: HTTP/1.{1,0} message parser
    news:878t3oupx3.fsf@siamics.net (source)
    news:87zhw4t9n4.fsf@siamics.net (announce)

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[ANN] no-https.perl 0.11: redirects-eating plain-HTTP to HTTPS proxy Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2018-10-05 16:32 +0000

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