Hi Sindhu - I I believe we have a confusion in terminology.
I believe that you are trying to proxy over TLS (or some people call it
proxy over https) - not that you are having trouble proxing https:// urls.
Is that correct?
proxying https urls should work just fine with your original configuration
- the https request will be tunneled through the proxy using the CONNECT
method and thus be opaque to the proxy, but it will be routed through it.
If you would like to proxy http:// and or https:// using an https
/TLSconnection to the proxy then you need a new feature that is on firefox
32 and newer. That's currently the aurora channel.
To use that the pac file would look like
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
return "HTTPS localhost:2443;"
}
Note that https:// urls will still be routed through the connect method at
the proxy. If you are trying to see the contents of the https transaction
at the proxy that is not possible - https:// urls are encrypted end to end.
hope that helps.
-Patrick
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Sindhu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use a PAC file to redirect http / https requests.
>
> The following function works for a http request but it throws an
> NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_PROXY_HOST error for* https* requests.
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
> return "PROXY x.x.x.x;"
> }
>
> And if i change the function to :
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
> return "PROXY x.x.x.x:443;"
> }
>
> it throws NS_ERROR_NET_RESET error.
>
> Is it possible to redirect https requests through a PAC file? Or is there
> any other way to achieve this?
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patrick McManus <[email protected]>
> Date: 2 July 2014 20:15
> Subject: Re: Using a Pac File to redirect https requests.
> To: Sindhu <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
>
> you can use a PAC file to route all http and https generated by gecko.
> https will of course be tunneled through the proxy using CONNECT because it
> needs to be end to end for appropriate security.
>
> e.g.
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
> return "PROXY localhost:2443;"
> }
>
> dev-tech-network is probably the right place to followup to get the right
> visibility - you should supply the pac file there.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Sindhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an extension which uses a PAC file to redirect particular requests
> > to a proxy server. But this doesn't working for any *https *request.
> > Firefox always uses a DIRECT connection for https requests. Is there any
> > way to redirect https requests using a PAC file? Or is there any other
> way
> > to achieve this?
> >
> > Sindhu Simhadri
> >
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