bakemono wrote:Stunnel was mentioned here earlier and I looked into it. But it seems that you need to explicitly configure every host you want […]
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Stunnel was mentioned here earlier and I looked into it. But it seems that you need to explicitly configure every host you want to connect to. You can't use it to handle the mandatory TLS while you randomly surf the web in naked TLS-free glory. (Also the latest version only has 64-bit win binaries.) It sounds like legacyweb also uses stunnel?
Proxies are also being mentioned, but do they really handle the encrypted connection to the host while passing unencrypted data to a client? I haven't been able to find a straight answer about this. The only experience I have with proxies is running AnalogX years ago to share an internet connection through parallel or serial cables. So if someone could confirm that this is possible and add some details about how to set it up, that would be much appreciated.
There's a bug in Opera 9 which can lead to a crash during HTTPS negotiation. At first I would put offending domain names in my hosts file to avoid problems, but these days there are too many, and I have to disable images just to browse my regular forums, etc. in case someone embeds something from a third party image hosting service that would cause a crash. It would be great to just point Opera 9 at a proxy server running on my LAN and not have to worry about HTTPS. If the proxy is a local one, then it seems that the encryption would also still be intact on the WAN, of course I'm not using Opera 9 to connect to my bank or any website that requires confidentiality anyway.
It sounds like stunnel does work for connecting to an email server though, so I can be ready for the day when my email provider decides to dump an old TLS version 😀
Legacyweb uses stunnel4 for emails. Basically, while running it on my rPI3, if i wanted to use another email service, I have to repeat the install process of this script. I think that for those old email clients that do not support SMTP auth, you have to set up your login details on the script too.
For web browser it has nothing. Except, a few local pages built using APIs to view data from gmaps, Wikipedia, YouTube... they do not work so I removed them. But they configured the apache server for me so I kept this part working since I might want to set up a local web dev env later.
I wanted to try the web proxy rendering script later. Because I do not think that unless someone can reconfigure the stunnel script to work for both web and email, stunnel will not work for web. A proxy seems to be an easier solution, but not very reliable. My advice is, to check for mobile stripped versions of websites if you can get around the HTTPS problem. For example, CNN has a very mobile stripped version of their website which renders great. I believe facebook also has one, very stripped than current mobile iteration, but without being able to log in (HTTPS) I cannot confirm.
I wanted to use Netscape and Eudora instead of IE and OE, because that’s what I remember to be using when I was a kid. But Netscape crashes more than a F1 McLaren Honda (trying to be funny here) and I cannot remember which version of Eudora I was using. I am not even sure if it was Eudora. Opera crashes a lot too (on WFWG3.11).
At least mIRC works.
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