joemama718 Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 i posted this in part of a thread in the customer service section, but in the hopes of more people helping... does any1 know how I can install SSL support for CGI Proxy? edit// Does anyone know if https:// can be made to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfire Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I think that https is only for websites that have security and that can be trusted like paypal etc. I'm not sure though. Why do you need https anyways, http is just fine for a personal webpage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joemama718 Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 not when you're using a proxy and need to view a page that's, for example, has security and can be trusted like paypal etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 not when you're using a proxy and need to view a page that's, for example, has security and can be trusted like paypal etc. It can't be trusted though because you establish an encrypted connection with the proxy and then the proxy establishes an encrypted connection with paypal. This means that you are reling on the security of your proxy. Which in this case is a shared host. And probably hasn't been attack tested to the degree that PayPal has. A decent proxy would just forward the packets so the encrypted connection would be between paypal and end user, and the proxy would never need to know what encryption was, it would just pass along lower level packets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfire Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 But if you use proxies then you would not be using https://www.proxyname.com but would be using http://www.proxyname.com . So you are not actually accessing a https site directly that is why it is not secure. If you access it directly without using any proxies or other stuff then it will be secure I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joemama718 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 not if you use https://www.proxyname.com - and that's why I'm asking if it's possible to access it using https:// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfire Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 But if https is only for secure websites then that proxy server won't have it and if it does have it them there's no need to worry as it will be secure and you can trust that proxy server.(however I don't know any proxy websites that have the https:// prefix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pythonet Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I agree with dragonfire. And also i want to ask why do you want to use proxies? An internet article states that 80% of proxies dont work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karath Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Please don't revive old threads... Anyhow, proxies do work, except they are slow and so it's just better to go and just surf on safe websites... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pythonet Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Please don't revive old threads... Anyhow, proxies do work, except they are slow and so it's just better to go and just surf on safe websites... I never said that they dont work, i said 80% of them dont work when i read an internet article it was written in it, but i havent tried it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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