[stunnel-users] older browsers, stunnel and privoxy

Wed Dec 19 16:13:25 CET 2018

so stunnel doesnt rewrite the headers besides the encryption? does
that mean only stunnel can receive traffic forwarded by itself, and
can only work if both ends of the tunnel are defined and connected?

On 12/18/18, Ludolf Holzheid <lholzheid at bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-12-18 17:49:16 +0100, kovacs janos wrote:
>> [..]
>>
>> does this mean stunnel encrypts requests differently than browsers? or
>> the connection between browser and proxy is different than stunnel and
>> proxy?
>
> Janos,
>
> Making HTTPS from HTTP is a bit more than just encrypting/decrypting.
> To make this work, you have to re-write HTTP headers and links in the
> HTTP body before encrypting and after decrypting.  As these are part
> of the TCP payload, you have to follow, parse and modify the data
> streams exchanged between client and server, in addition to
> encryption.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ludolf
>
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