In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination...:
I would like to be able to do some basic web surfing on these older boxes.
TLS is going to be just one of the issues you encounter. Poor or missing support for HTML 5, CSS, and JavaScript in older browsers are going to be an impediment too.
What I'm looking at doing is setting up a web proxy, and, having that web proxy also do the SSL/TLS termination. Ideally, this proxy software would run on OI.
Ok, you're talking about a *forward* proxy. A TLS or SSL terminating proxy is more often used in a reverse proxy config, but as the wiki article you linked mentions, there are reasons to do encryption termination even with a forward proxy. I have a bunch of experience with reverse proxies, but not much with forward proxies. Still, if I were trying to do what you're trying, I would start with Apache httpd. It supports forward proxying, there's a ton of documentation on Apache httpd, and a recent version is part of OI. Some googling makes it look like forward proxying is (like reverse proxying) pretty easy to set up: https://theheat.dk/blog/?p=929 The thing to be very careful with is restricting access, so that your system doesn't become an open web proxy. Any documentation on forward proxying with httpd will likely stress that. Good luck! Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss