On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: > Le dimanche 25 janvier 2004 à 15:46, John J Lee écrivait: > > > > BTW, anybody have any tips on software / usage thereof for HTTPS proxying, > > for debugging purposes, and how to set up with LWP? I've always used > > browser plugins or debugging output from (Python) code until now. > > > > Well, in June 2004, I suppose HTTP::Proxy will support working in a man > in middle manner, so this kind of thing should be quite easy to do.
Whoops -- I scanned that thread, then forgot about it ;-) Thanks. > (I have yet to understand how to use Net::SSLeay, though.) Worked out of the box for me (I'm running somebody else's code, though). > In fact, you can already use HTTP::Proxy to see inside a HTTPS connection: > set HTTPS_PROXY to point to your HTTP::Proxy proxy, use env_proxy > with your LWP::UA object. LWP::UA does a GET https://www.example.com/ > to the proxy, which will fetch the data with SSL, and return it in a > plain (cleartext) HTTP session. [...] Any recommendations for a specific one? Hmm, do these proxies check certificates / revocation lists when they do that (not that I care, particularly -- just curious)? What happens when they fail, if so? John
