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Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them
Date 2018-05-17 09:00 +0200
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote:

[...]

> You should note that HTTP-proxy based systems will not be able to do any
> inspection or modification of traffic for sites using HTTPS.

This is true... and then it's not :-)

If your proxy terminates the HTTPS connection, effectively doing a
"man-in-the-middle" (but controlled by you), it can: most probably
you'd have to fool your browser by offering it a HTTPS connection
from the proxy, and by installing a trusted root certificate you
create yourself. Basically what the proxy in your $CORPORATION does
all of the time.

I don't know whether privoxy or squid can do that (I'd love to know,
mind you, but days are so short).

Cheers
- -- tomás
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"pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-05-15 02:20 +0200
  Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-15 08:40 +0200
  Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 14:00 +0200
    Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 19:30 +0200
  Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 14:30 +0200
  Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-05-15 23:20 +0200
  Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-05-17 02:20 +0200
    Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web browser renders them Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2018-05-17 04:40 +0200
      Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-17 09:00 +0200
        Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-05-17 14:00 +0200
          Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-17 14:00 +0200
        Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-17 14:50 +0200
          Re: "pre-treating" documents from certain remote URLs before a web  browser renders them <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-17 16:50 +0200

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