[OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination (on OI)

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Jerry

I Run Caddy as a ReverseProxy. You can dwnload a solaris Binary directly
of their site. As it is Pure Go they can cross compile it without
needing a solaris Host within seconds. And there is a Plugin to allow it
to be used as Forward Proxy aswell. Config File is absolutely simplistic
and well documented.

The Other option I know is very popular and modern is Squid. It's kind
of the King of the Hill atm.

I think it was even packaged at somepoint afaik. But I could be mistaken.


Anyway very much recommend to try out caddy.

Greetings
Till

On 22.12.18 00:18, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> among other things, I have a personal collection in my home of old workstations (SGI Irix boxes and earlier Sun workstations), older
> Macs, etc.  For example, a recent acquisition was a Sun SPARCserver 1000e system (Sun4d), with several external drive units.  Pics here:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d>
> 
> As most of you are aware, the web as we know it, continues to become increasingly encrypted, with older, commonly used protocols
> such as SSLv3 being depreciated in favor of TLS 1.2, 1.3 and beyond.
> 
> I would like to be able to do some basic web surfing on these older boxes.  Emphasis on basic.  The reality is, its very unlikely
> that anyone will ever compile a newer browser for my old stuff, and, I doubt it would have the encryption/decryption horsepower to
> do so, even if modern browser software were available.
> 
> What I'm looking at doing is setting up a web proxy, and, having that web proxy also do the SSL/TLS termination.  Ideally, this
> proxy software would run on OI.
> 
> As expected of anyone here, making a similar request, I did do some homework, and it seems that there are several pieces of Unix
> open-source software that perform this function.   This is just one particular hit, but, sharing it as it has a nice summary list of
> software that has this capability:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS_termination_proxy>
> 
> full disclaimer:  This is not for a business, its just for me, in my home. I have no intentions of doing Internet banking or
> anything else questionable.  Just want to be able to do some basic web surfing, download source code, etc.
> 
> Specifically, I'm solely wondering if anyone here has already done something like this, and, if so, is there any software in
> particular you might recommend, or, recommend avoiding.   I'm basically just looking for software recommendations, from there, I can
> run with the compile+technicals.  As commented earlier, what ever software I use would need to compile+run on OI.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
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