I am running the latest stunnel for Windows on 64-bit Win7 as an application, not as a service. I simply unzipped everything to one folder, configured the "stunnel.conf" file; and when I need to run the program, I can open a command prompt in its folder and type "stunnel stunnel.conf". It then reads my stunnel.conf file and works its magic. This works fine for capturing the data from those programs which I can configure to use localhost and a specific port because I can configure stunnel.conf with accept = ip.address:port
Now I have a program that I want to use to download some text files from the internet using http or https. However, this program cannot be manually configured to make a connection with a certain IP and port. Instead, I have to give it an alias-like name, which it then maps to one of several different domain names, makes a DNS query for the IP and transmits to that address the instructions for downloading some text files.
So, is it possible to have stunnel "capture" any and all http transports (port 80) or https transports (port 443) from a specific program, regardless of which IP that connection was destined for, so that I can then direct this data traffic from stunnel to socat or from stunnel to an http proxy which I can manually direct to a specific connection? Is this a kind of thing for which stunnel can be used? If so, where can I find the instructions for setting it up? Thanks.