--On 23 September 2004 12:49 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Alex Sharaz wrote:
This sounds interesting, given that almost every man and his dog is using IE or mozilla/firefox anyone know if they suport proxy connections over ssl?
Not last time I looked, but there is a rumor that recent versions of mozilla/firefox may. Have not found it in the versions of Mozilla I have access to however.
o.k. i'm running the pre release version of firefox. I'll have a look.
What works for all browsers is to use a ssl tunnel client. stunnel is a reasonable and free one.
Already using stunnel for email access through our firewall works great.
The problem is that we don't. We are taking about personal pcs in the Student Halls of Residence.The principle when using an ssl tunnel is that you run a small SSL proxy gateway/tunnel on the client configured to connect to the proxy https_port, the client browser is then configured to use the local port of the SSL proxy.
Browser -> (localhost) stunnel -> (SSL) Proxy https_port
stunnel then wraps all requests send by the browser into an encrypted SSL tunnel and sends them to the proxy.
If you have central administration of your Windows boxes it should not be too hard to push out the stunnel client and new proxy configuration to the clients.
I don't impose proxy authentication on all of our users, just our students and wireless lan users.
Still, I'll have a play and see what we can do. It would be better if there was some way of not having to install something on the client.
Many thanks alex
Regards Henrik
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