*       From: Reco 
*       Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:57:19 +0300
> ... NSS is not the best TLS implementation. There's some hope for 
> dillo depending on if it uses openssl or gnutls.

How do you evaluate these?  Published review?  Study of sources?

> Have you meant "Oberon sends HTTP request that should be transformed to
> HTTPS"? That's where that hypothetical proxy comes in.

OK, yes.  If http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux is put in the URL bar 
of dillo, it opens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux. If 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux is put in the URL bar,  dillo 
opens it.  I imagine similar behaviour in Oberon.

> Oberon browser sends HTTP request, but gets HTTPS redirect (301/302) in
> result.

Yes; ideally, redirection is handled gracefully.

> Oberon browser sends HTTP request, proxy transforms it into HTTPS, gets
> HTTPS reply, transforms it back into HTTP reply ... only to send Oberon
> browser a huge pile of HTTPS links to pictures, css, js and whatnot.

For now I'd be happy if Oberon could open the text in a 
simple page.  https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/S3/2003-01-05/Mail.Mod
for example.

> [1] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

Appears that a X86-64 or ARM system is required.  Or possibly compile 
the source for the old 32 system here; athough, if this could work the 
binary would probably be available.

Probably better to forget this approach and work on SSL/TLS for 
Oberon. Dillo works quite well.  No reason Oberon can't.

Thanks,                                     ... P.

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