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arthurprs
arthurprs

Reputation: 4627

HTTPS requests over open proxy servers

I will keep this simple.
It's possible, or there is a special type of proxy for this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 380

Answers (2)

k-f-
k-f-

Reputation: 21

If not exposing your clients IP address to the Server is important you should understand that you'll need to have the proxy actually make the HTTPS request. Otherwise, it will look as such:

Client -+- [CONNECT] ---> Proxy --- [DIRECT TCP] -+-> Server  
   |                       |                              |        
   +---------------[ENCRYPTED TCP]------------------------+

What you may want is this:

Client -+- [DIRECT TCP] ---> Proxy --- [CONNECT] -+-> Server  
                              |                         |        
                              +-------------------------+

I have yet to find a library that works well for this second method.

Upvotes: 2

k_b
k_b

Reputation: 2480

That's possible. The host (address/port) you're doing the request to isn't encrypted, and the proxy server just forwards the bytes you're sending (encrypted or not), and of course gives you the response.

Upvotes: 1

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