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That's delicious! BTW, how's your stealth browser project coming along? (I'd go look but I'm in a weird situation right now where I can't view most of the web

That's delicious! BTW, how's your stealth browser project coming along? (I'd go look but I'm in a weird situation right now where I can't view most of the web. It's browser related so maybe this would amuse you: I'm running Firefox 91.5.1esr on FreeBSD from the official pkg. The vast majority of HTTPS sites give a "Your connection is not secure" error (Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY) with no recourse (no button to let you make an exception or anything like that. It literally says, "The website administrator will need to fix the server first before you can visit the site.") The fix is to disable SPDY for HTTP2 connections. That works, but then FF crashes (with a core dump, hello FreeBSD) within ~10 seconds no matter what I do. There are a few clues, but I'm just not interested in shaving this yak. Frankly, I'm shopping for a new browser as I find the situation ridiculous. Your project seems way more interesting than what FF has become.)

cookiengineer 5y ago
Did you try to breakout using pwnat to get a public port? In enterprise grade environments it usually works :D I think I'd also try to run a UDP tunnel or try to use an amplification redirect on a UDP relaying proxy to get an open port that you can send requests through. Sometimes public DNS resolvers can help to punch a hole through the NAT because their IPs are allowlisted to unbreak secure browsing modes. > re: stealth I forked webkit into retrokit [1] these days and am gradually removing all APIs that could be abused for tracking purposes ... with the idea to create a minimalistic webview that is embeddable in a browser and still is able to parse/lex/render modern HTML5 and CSS4. This way I can later bundle nodejs with the retrokit webview that just displays the Browser UI that's served locally. [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit
- carapace 5y ago
  I don't think it's a network issue (we're at home) because all the other browsers work. This version of FF is just weird about HTTP2/SPDY. I don't want to shave this yak. Retrokit looks great. :)

cookiengineer 5y ago

Did you try to breakout using pwnat to get a public port? In enterprise grade environments it usually works :D I think I'd also try to run a UDP tunnel or try to use an amplification redirect on a UDP relaying proxy to get an open port that you can send requests through. Sometimes public DNS resolvers can help to punch a hole through the NAT because their IPs are allowlisted to unbreak secure browsing modes. > re: stealth I forked webkit into retrokit [1] these days and am gradually removing all APIs that could be abused for tracking purposes ... with the idea to create a minimalistic webview that is embeddable in a browser and still is able to parse/lex/render modern HTML5 and CSS4. This way I can later bundle nodejs with the retrokit webview that just displays the Browser UI that's served locally. [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit

carapace 5y ago
I don't think it's a network issue (we're at home) because all the other browsers work. This version of FF is just weird about HTTP2/SPDY. I don't want to shave this yak. Retrokit looks great. :)