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One thing I've been looking for as I mess around with vintage computers is a SOCKS proxy that just strips HTTPS. The wide move to HTTPS, newer TLS protocols and
by kalleboo 7y ago
One thing I've been looking for as I mess around with vintage computers is a SOCKS proxy that just strips HTTPS. The wide move to HTTPS, newer TLS protocols and newer certificate issuers has made a lot of old browsers more useless than they should be.
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- KayEss 7y agoSOCKS is very easy to implement. You could probably knock this together in pretty much any language in little more than the time it takes you to read the SOCKS docs and how to set up the server side TLS connection.
- bvnfj 7y agoProbably can be done in a few lines of Python.
- Asooka 7y agoI think you can use mitmproxy for that.
- userbinator 7y agoProxomitron is not SOCKS (it's a regular HTTP proxy with MitM capability) but it can strip HTTPS in its "half-SSL mode". Its original author is dead and it was originally designed for OpenSSL 0.9.x, but there are patches that will let it use a newer version. I use it on my network mainly for adblocking and other page filtering, and the "HTTPS upgrade" it does is more like a side-benefit. On the other hand, a TLS 1.2 connection coming from a client purporting to be some old version of IE on Windows tends to cause some sites to reject the request, I guess purely because of how unusual that looks.