About

This is an nginx config for allowing computers with limited/old/no https support to browse the internet

Install & Setup

• You'll need:
  • nginx installed with the subs_filter module
  • an older computer
  • a newer computer
• Test it out

nginx -c debug.conf -p (pwd)

• add a HTTP Web Proxy system wide or in your browser's settings to point to the host and port running the proxy

• http-proxy.conf can be symlinked to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/http-proxy.conf on ubuntu/debian

Bugs

• Currently this will naively replace all instances of https with http in the body which could break things
• Headers other than Location ie application specific headers may not be modified to http in the response to the client

Contributing

• PR's are welcome

Desired Features

• a more correct https proxy for clients that support https but may not have support for current cipher suites

Inspiration

The original implementation here had a few issues, this config adds support for:

• modifying Location headers
• HTTPS SNI
• more "complete" munging of https to http

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17680/how-can-i-visit-https-websites-in-old-web-browsers