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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">To put it blatantly, I am trying to make stunnel 4.12 create a 2 way encrypted channel from my home computer as a client to an SSL supporting proxy (HTTP). Also, I am using localhost (127.0.0.1) as a connect address for proxy settings in such programs as Internet Explorer or a download manager. A sample of my stunnel.conf is bellow:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>client = yes</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>verify = 0</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>[https]</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>accept<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>= 127.0.0.1:8080</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>connect =<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ssl.supporting.httpproxy.with.openport:80</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>TIMEOUTclose = 0</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>; vim:ft=dosini</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>My computer currently has the following installed:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="ftp://ftp.mirt.net/stunnel/stunnel-4.12rc1-installer.exe"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>stunnel-4.12</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Opensslv0.9.8 (</FONT><A href="http://www.shininglightpro.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-v0.9.8.exe"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Win32OpenSSL-v0.9.8.exe</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.msi"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.msi</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Windows XP Home Edition (SP2)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Whenever I try to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 the stunnel log reports</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 20:57:33 LOG5[6012:5668]: stunnel 4.12 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu WIN32+IPv6 with OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 20:57:33 LOG5[6012:4600]: No limit detected for the number of clients</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 20:57:38 LOG5[6012:1560]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3226</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 20:59:10 LOG5[6012:5396]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3232</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:04:10 LOG5[6012:4576]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3249</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:09:10 LOG5[6012:4652]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3268</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:14:10 LOG5[6012:5396]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3283</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:19:12 LOG5[6012:1556]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3296</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:24:13 LOG5[6012:4072]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3309</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:29:23 LOG3[6012:3408]: Failed to initialize remote connection</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>2005.09.23 21:29:23 LOG5[6012:6140]: https connected from 127.0.0.1:3332</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>And so on into infinity </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Am I trying to do the impossible, or are all those 8196 bit RSA keys (certified through x508) that I generated going to waste?</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>