how to create a https proxy?
- by davidshen84
hi,
i want to implement a simple ssl web proxy. i do not want to work with the network connection problems. so i think i can utilize a web server (like apache) to help me establish the connection, and my program works like a cgi app on the web server to redirect the web browser request. below is how i want to implement it:
client make http/https requests to the target web site, and setting to use my http/https proxy;
apache get the request, and use a rewrite rule to redirect the to my cgi app;
my app parse the request and make request to the real web site;
my app get the response from the real web site, then send the response back to the client;
currently, http requests seem to work. but https requests do not work at all. i tried to use curl to make a request to a https web site through my proxy, and the result is CONNECTION FAILED.
my question is, will my idea work? if yes, how to make the https requests work.
