On 6/17/12 7:15 AM, Jacov Koren wrote:
I am just trying to understand how ssl connection can take place when
using transparent proxy.
Do I need to intercept the traffic with iptables just like I did for port
80 ?
Do I need to configure something else in records.config?
It's pretty urgent , I would really appreciate it if someone can help me ?
How would you expect it to work in transparent proxy? It's not like the
proxy can so SSL termination here, without having every web sites in the
world private certificate key. Unless of course you force your clients to
trust your own CA, and make a SSL certificate for e.g. *.*. Funny that this
discussion is coming up again (we've had this exercise at least a few times
before) with the recent /. article:
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/06/16/223208/ask-slashdot-whats-your-take-on-https-snooping
Basically, to tproxy HTTPS, your proxy has to act as a man-in-the-middle.
Very undesirable.
Typically, in order to do HTTPS proxying, you would use normal forward
proxying, where the client configures the browser to use a particular proxy
server. When doing HTTPS through that proxy, the UA will use the CONNECT
method and the proxy simply "tunnels" the SSL requests. It's really only
useful to e.g. control which server(s) your UAs can CONNECT to (for example).
If you are doing transparent proxy for HTTP, you probably should just let
HTTPS bypass the proxying layer entirely.
-- Leif
