Re: Shimming HTTP to HTTPS.
* From: Reco
* Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:57:19 +0300
> ... NSS is not the best TLS implementation. There's some hope for
> dillo depending on if it uses openssl or gnutls.
How do you evaluate these? Published review? Study of sources?
> Have you meant "Oberon sends HTTP request that should be transformed to
> HTTPS"? That's where that hypothetical proxy comes in.
OK, yes. If http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux is put in the URL bar
of dillo, it opens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux. If
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux is put in the URL bar, dillo
opens it. I imagine similar behaviour in Oberon.
> Oberon browser sends HTTP request, but gets HTTPS redirect (301/302) in
> result.
Yes; ideally, redirection is handled gracefully.
> Oberon browser sends HTTP request, proxy transforms it into HTTPS, gets
> HTTPS reply, transforms it back into HTTP reply ... only to send Oberon
> browser a huge pile of HTTPS links to pictures, css, js and whatnot.
For now I'd be happy if Oberon could open the text in a
simple page. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/S3/2003-01-05/Mail.Mod
for example.
> [1] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
Appears that a X86-64 or ARM system is required. Or possibly compile
the source for the old 32 system here; athough, if this could work the
binary would probably be available.
Probably better to forget this approach and work on SSL/TLS for
Oberon. Dillo works quite well. No reason Oberon can't.
Thanks, ... P.
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