On 4/18/19 5:12 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Yeah I know, and then there are the IOT devices. In my case though I
> really do just have the PCs. I often take the remarkable decision to
> fix things instead of replace them, which keeps my technology stagnant
> in the first place, and I don't bother with Smartphones or Smart TVs.
>
> Hence the trouble with HTTPS in the first place. If I have a working
> system that doesn't need to communicate securly, I want to keep using
> it as-is. I don't want to upgrade this, which means upgrading that,
> which means changing this, which means buying a new that, and so on...

You can configure Apache httpd as a reverse proxy for sites and leverage
it's ability to modify HTML as it passes through.  So you can bust HTTPS
sites down to HTTP.

I'm guessing that this is much of what sslstrip does.



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