----- Original Message ----- From: "kovacs janos" kovacsjanosfasz@gmail.com To: "Flo Rance" trourance@gmail.com Cc: stunnel-users@stunnel.org Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] older browsers, stunnel and privoxy
now im really not sure, since the wikipedia page on stunnel also describes the program doing exactly what i need in the Example scenario section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunnel#Example_scenario
"Network traffic from the client initially passes over SSL to the stunnel application, which transparently encrypts/decrypts traffic and forwards unsecured traffic to port 25 locally. The mail server sees a non-SSL mail client. "
only difference is, i need it to forward "unsecured traffic" to my browser client, not a server. are you all sure its really not possible?
It is possible with the same limitiations as with server case. In case of server, there is one server, which accepts incoming connections (unencrypted) and stunnel accepts unencrypted connections for that (one) server and decrypts and forwards them. There is only one server, which gets connected by stunnel.
In case of client (browser), for each remote (https) server to be connected to, stunnnel config file will need an entry; in browser it will not be possible to use DNS names (all servers will have to be addressed as 127.0.0.1:someport where "someport", is port assigned in stunnel conf server entry accept statement), so most links in webpages will not work. It may be feasible for small number of servers, which does not links any external resources.