Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Robert Relyea: >>> I've seen proposals for this kind of gateway back in the early 90's as >>> a way of providing secure email access for browsers which did not >>> support https:. >>> >> >> IIRC, Netscape 3 or 4 had some kind of "extend trust to proxies" option. >> > Not when it comes to

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Relyea
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robert Relyea: > > >>> Oh, how unfortunate. Is it possible to disable all certificate checks? >>> > > >> So the question naturally arises: "why do you want this?". >> > > I want to get rid of the HTTPS confirmation dialogs for testing > automation purpos

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Robert Relyea: >> Oh, how unfortunate. Is it possible to disable all certificate checks? > So the question naturally arises: "why do you want this?". I want to get rid of the HTTPS confirmation dialogs for testing automation purposes, preferably without patching the source code. (The latter

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Relyea
Nelson Bolyard wrote: Robert Relyea wrote: NOTE2: None of the proxy nelson mentioned will work if the user is using SSL client auth. I would say two things about that: 1) SSL client auth is generally controlled by the server, not the client. correct. (of course). 2) There are re

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-11 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Robert Relyea wrote: > NOTE2: None of the proxy nelson mentioned will work if the user is using > SSL client auth. I would say two things about that: 1) SSL client auth is generally controlled by the server, not the client. 2) There are reverse proxy products that will do SSL client auth, IIRC.

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-11 Thread Robert Relyea
Florian Weimer wrote: * Nelson Bolyard: Florian Weimer wrote, On 2007-12-07 02:54: Is it possible to configure NSS (or, more precisely, Firefox) to terminate SSL connections on the web proxy, so that the proxy receives requests in the clear (and handles the certificate verification)?

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nelson Bolyard: > Florian Weimer wrote, On 2007-12-07 02:54: >> Is it possible to configure NSS (or, more precisely, Firefox) to >> terminate SSL connections on the web proxy, so that the proxy receives >> requests in the clear (and handles the certificate verification)? > > I think, but am not

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-11 Thread Umesh Bywar
Bruce: You may want to look at Paros. Its an open source proxy where you can see the HTTPS traffic in plain text. Best Regards. Umesh. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Keats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Terminatin

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-10 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Bruce Keats wrote, On 2007-12-10 07:58: > I was curious about the last scenario. > > 2. The Server Side Proxy (a.k.a., Reverse Proxy) > > Public Internet Intranet > [browser]-[proxy]--[server] > SSL plain

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-10 Thread Bruce Keats
I was curious about the last scenario. 2. The Server Side Proxy (a.k.a., Reverse Proxy) Public Internet Intranet [browser]-[proxy]--[server] SSL plain In this case, does the proxy have to convert the URIs

Re: Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-07 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Florian Weimer wrote, On 2007-12-07 02:54: > Is it possible to configure NSS (or, more precisely, Firefox) to > terminate SSL connections on the web proxy, so that the proxy receives > requests in the clear (and handles the certificate verification)? I think, but am not certain, that you're descri

Terminating SSL on the web proxy

2007-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
Is it possible to configure NSS (or, more precisely, Firefox) to terminate SSL connections on the web proxy, so that the proxy receives requests in the clear (and handles the certificate verification)? ___ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@list