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Section SSL Support in README seems to be incorrect #115

Closed abotalov closed 11 years ago

abotalov commented 11 years ago

Section SSL support of this project's README says that:

While the proxy supports SSL, it requires that a Certificate Authority be installed in to the browser. This allows the browser to trust all the SSL traffic coming from the proxy, which will be proxied using a classic man-in-the-middle technique.

However, currently I use Browsermob as a proxy to connect to HTTPS site without importing certificate to browser.

I just create new Firefox profile, set its HTTP and SSL proxy to selenium as follows:

# Initialize browsermob_proxy as shown here - https://github.com/jarib/browsermob-proxy-rb/#how-to-use-with-selenium-webdriver
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile.proxy = browsermob_proxy.selenium_proxy(:http, :ssl)

After that Browsermob seems to support SSL even though README says that API user should import certificate to browser.

lightbody commented 11 years ago

That is because the Firefox profile set up by Selenium includes the CA by default. It's just a little thing we do to make Selenium + BMP usage super easy :)

On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:00 AM, Andrey Botalov notifications@github.com wrote:

Section SSL support of this project's README says that:

While the proxy supports SSL, it requires that a Certificate Authority be installed in to the browser. This allows the browser to trust all the SSL traffic coming from the proxy, which will be proxied using a classic man-in-the-middle technique.

However, currently I use Browsermob as a proxy to connect to HTTPS site without importing certificate to browser.

I just create new Firefox profile, set its HTTP and SSL proxy to selenium as follows:

Initialize browsermob_proxy as shown here - https://github.com/jarib/browsermob-proxy-rb/#how-to-use-with-selenium-webdriver

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new profile.proxy = browsermob_proxy.selenium_proxy(:http, :ssl) After that Browsermob seems to support SSL even though README says that API user should import certificate to browser.

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