On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Polipo author's reasoning may apply to your application as well, my >> memory is essentially the value of HTTP proxies has declined a lot now that >> so much of the web is behind HTTPS. > > > Yes. And if it is about HTTP, then the clients' ISPs will proxy the > data for them. They may even add some extra friendly stuff in the data, > such as ads and announcement banners! The lengths they will go to for > their users. > > Bottom line: HTTP proxies *are* on the way out, for good reason. >
This kind of situation usually means that I'm trying to use the wrong tool. As said in the first mail, I need to redirect some targets to a ssh tunnel, and let everything else go its way. Rather than using a proxy, the solution seems obvious: setup a different browser profile for the special targets and set the browser proxy for that profile to the ssh tunnel. Cheers Jorge
