HTTPS and SSL

[Blougram]

I am experimenting with different browsers for my SE/30, and in terms of the speed-compatibility tradeoff, I really like Netscape 4.08. However, it seems that none of the browsers is able to parse https, which makes it impossible to access Wikipedia. Are there any workarounds for this? I am thinking specifically of Wikipedia here -- so either a way of browsing https or of reaching Wikipedia through unsecured channels would work for me. In the grand scheme of things, implementing https trumps me being able to access the web on an '80s Mac, but I'd still be curious to know if it's possible to use Wikipedia.

The email component of Netscape Communicator 4.08 seems to support SSL, at least according to the Preferences page. There are also brief mentions of a Crypto plug-in for the 68k version of Mulberry in various archived forums. And yet, the consensus seems to be that there are no 68k email clients that support SSL. It would be great if someone could provide more information.

 

[Alex]

I honestly do not know. Does this help? https://www.fenestrated.net/mac/68kMail/

 

[man4mac]

I've been thinking through this myself. The amount of change in SSL cryptography since the latest version of any SE/30 compatible browser pretty much ensures you won't be able to do https browsing on *most* sites now, and certainly not in the future as SNI is being quickly adopted. However, that doesn't mean we're necessarily out of luck.

It should be possible to have an SSL terminating proxy handling those requests for you, and forwarding the data over a stardard port 80 connection. Would be really cool to build a little proxy box out of a raspberry pi or some such device. It could have its own DNS server to terminate and forward requests....just brain storming here

 

[techknight]

you need stunnel.

 

[Alex]

It should be possible to have an SSL terminating proxy handling those requests for you, and forwarding the data over a stardard port 80 connection. Would be really cool to build a little proxy box out of a raspberry pi or some such device. It could have its own DNS server to terminate and forward requests....just brain storming here

What a plan! Very interesting.