On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:57:16PM +0000, Osvald Brko wrote: > > From: Josealf.rm <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 1:21 PM > > To: Osvald Brko > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Web browsing over stunnel > > > > It’s because the web site GETs a request for http://127.0.0.1/ not for > > http://www.stunnel.org/ > > > Just as an academic exercise, you may want to add this line to your hosts > > file (usually in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts): > > > 127.0.0.1 www.stunnel.net > > > Then change your connect line to the IP address of www.stunnel.net (now > > 104.239.213.7 or 198.105.254.11). > > > And test again. > > > Saludos > > Jose Alfredo Diaz > > > Hi, > I am not sure if I understand you right. What this academic exercise should > reveal? > It just try to connect to 127.0.0.1 ...?
The point is to get your browser to ask the remote server "give me the main page of www.stunnel.org" and not "give me the main page of 127.0.0.1". The webserver may have many so called "virtual hosts" defined - the same webserver on the same IP address serves many websites; it knows which one to serve by the hostname that the client (the browser) sends to it. Putting 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file and pointing your browser to it is a widely used trick to make it connect to a remote site through a tunnel; of course, the tunnel must be established first. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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