On 2014-10-09 at 19:17 -0500, Chase Hoffman wrote:
>                                               Your *.nsd.org cert would
> work to intercept traffic for all *.nsd.org sites, but would be useless
> for, say, www.driftpeasant.org.  I have no idea how you've gotten this far
> using *.nsd.org - from everything I know, that should fail hard pretty much
> immediately.

Speculating here: if the iBoss accepts proxy-style requests, and clients
are told to use an https proxy, pointed at the desired MitM box, then
the identity which they will be validating against the presented
certificate will be the hostname of the _proxy_, not of the final
destination.

Mind, most times I see something using `$https_proxy`, they're pointing
at a :3128 HTTP proxy which can also do HTTPS onwards, so they're not
actually providing TLS protection between the client and the proxy,
which might be an unpleasant surprise.

-Phil
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