With sadness I read your declared defeat against the horrible web monstrosities. I'm writing this from opera9, and lately the web has become unusable, because certain ciphers are simply not implemented in this browser. Not only are those sites not cached, they are completely unavailable to me from my favorite browser.
I had a habit of switching to some old version of chrome in such cases, but this also ceased to work lately, because yet another set of ciphers stopped working. So now I really have to do something else. Because I hate all modern web browsers I thought I could make opera use polipo for caching (as i have in the past), but this would only work with some kind of SSL mitm (I see there was some discussion about this on the ml). My idea: polipo could present two certificates to your web browser: a known, trusted one as long as everything is all right with the web site's certificate, or a bad one that is not trusted, with the ssl error encoded into the certificate's name. This way I could use opera forever and we'd just need to maintain polipo's interface towards some ssl implementation. (seems like ssl will keep on changing forever). Perhaps something like stunnel can also be expended to provide this in a transparent manner. Or even plain 'openssl s_client' (i use this for an ssl'ed ppp tunnel to get out of horrible restricted networks that block all other unknown encrypted protocols that don't run on https or imaps port). I know there are mitm proxies specifically for this, but they all don't cache anything. I'd rather keep polipo for this :) Is this in any way inspiring? What do you do to cope with the horror of modern web? (I wish I had never complained about IE4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Polipo-users mailing list Polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/polipo-users
