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moxie0 / Convergence

An agile, distributed, and secure alternative to the Certificate Authority system.
http://convergence.io
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Convergence doesn't work with a proxy #154

Open Jonny007-MKD opened 12 years ago

Jonny007-MKD commented 12 years ago

Hello, I often have to connect to the VPN of my university and they use a HTTP-proxy. When I try to visit SSL-encrypted sites through this proxy with convergence enabled the connection is reset. I get no SSL-error, but I noticed that it works when convergence is disabled in FF (clicking the icon for disabling doesn't change anything). I already contacted the guys from my high school but I guess they will say it's not their fault ._.

ewanm89 commented 12 years ago

Do they have a SOCKS proxy you could use?

Jonny007-MKD commented 12 years ago

Yes, but this proxy is protected with authentication and as far as I could find out FF doesn't support authentication for SOCKS 5. At least I configured the SOCKS proxy and the problem stays the same. Of course I don't know if FF tries to connect to it...

guns commented 11 years ago

The test for determing the type of proxy is quite strict in Convergence. I had to change the SOCKS proxy test to support ssh -D tunneling on my machine because firefox reports the connection as "socks4 " (trailing space included).