I need to access a IP restricted website. Since the IPs of my coworkers any my own one changes all the time I would like to use one of my root servers running Nginx as a Proxy in Chrome and Firefox.
Yet I don't know how to set up Nginx for that kind of usage. Googling is also difficult because the term proxy is used in a lot of different contexts.
Can I configure Nginx to act as a HTTP proxy to that page, if yes, how do I set it up?
Note: I can't use it as a reverse proxy to the page. It does work but all links on the page point to the original URL which I can't fix easily (at least I don't know how).
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I have an app that I'm testing on localhost via ng serve, and want to test the app offline.
I know in dev tools I can disable network access, however, this also prevents the files being served from localhost.
Currently, the only way I have found to test the app offline whilst still serving the files from localhost is simply to enable flight mode on my own computer, however, is there another way to achieve this?
Example screenshot, running ng serve whilst network is disabled
I think you are on the right path, but definitely there are alternatives to achieve the same results. The other possible ways I can think of:
Changing Internet Proxy Settings to point to a non-existent server, will block all your outgoing traffic but localhost.
Block outgoing traffic with Firewall.
I can't intercept requests made by Chrome version 73.0.3683.86 to my localhost site.
Local host site is running on IIS on http://127.0.0.3:80
Burp proxy lister is default one on 127.0.0.1:8080
Interception rules are default one as well
In my LAN settings, "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" is not enabled
When Interception is turned ON and I reload page in Chrome browser, no request is "caught" by Burp, my local site loads and only the external requests are intercepted, such as loading external scripts from CDN.
Also under "Proxy" > "HTTP History" there is only request to external sites, and all requests to http://127.0.0.3:80 are not recorded.
When I reload same page by Internet Explorer 11, initial GET request is intercepted by Burp, as expected. Also "Proxy" > "HTTP History" shows all the requests to local site http://127.0.0.3:80
What is the problem with the Chrome? Thanks!
Found the solution late yesterday. I am using the Chrome extension ProxySwitchy, but it doesn't matter if you use that or the system proxy configuration. The solution works the same way.
You can solve this problem by adding an entry in /etc/hosts file like below
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 somehostname
Now burp will intercept request from somehostname
Which version of Chrome are you using?
Have you tried using the FoxyProxy Chrome extension?
As a workaround, you could modify the hosts file on your machine.
I experienced the same issue when I upgraded from Opera 58.0 to 60.0. I think that this is Chrome related, because I've also experienced it in all other Chrome browsers. Opera 58 utilizes Chrome 71.0.3578.98. Opera 60 utilizes version Chrome 73.0.3683.103. Something was definitely updated in Chrome between these versions to cause this problem to happen.
You have to subtract the implicit bypass rules defined in Chrome (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/docs/proxy.md#Implicit-bypass-rules)
Requests to certain hosts will not be sent through a proxy, and will
instead be sent directly.
We call these the implicit bypass rules. The implicit bypass rules
match URLs whose host portion is either a localhost name or a
link-local IP literal. Essentially it matches:
localhost
*.localhost [::1]
127.0.0.1/8
169.254/16
[FE80::]/10
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/docs/proxy.md#Bypass-rule_Subtract-implicit-rules
Whereas regular bypass rules instruct the browser about URLs that
should not use the proxy, Subtract Implicit Rules has the opposite
effect and tells the browser to instead use the proxy.
In order to be able to proxy through the loopback interface, you have to add the entry
<-loopback>
in the list of hosts for which you don't want to a proxy. It is a bit confusing, indeed.
Make sure you haven't enabled socks proxy option, it happened with me too and i found the solution when i disabled the socks proxy option, just make sure it's disabled!
Example:
It helped me
I turned on this settings
We are looking for a way to have Chrome bypass the HSTS requirements for our dev environment.
We are working on a project for https://foo.com.
Within our organizations internal dns we have DNS entries for foo.com.dev which points to our internal dev server which has historically allowed us to reach our dev server via https://foo.com.dev. Secure web requests to this site have always been met with a security warning that we have been able to bypass but in a recent build of Chrome it seems that the ability to bypass the warning has been removed. We can continue to use this method in IE but would like to be able to test Chrome as well.
Additionally, developers have been able to use there own machine names as suffixes. For example a https://foo.com.workstation10
Any suggestions would be very welcome because the prospect of reconfiguring our entire dev environment is not a pleasant one.
To be clear - access to these sites are entirely limited to internal users by both firewall setup and dns configuration.
You can try one of the following options:
Send the Strict-Transport-Security header only for foo.com, and do not specify includeSubDomains.
Make self-signed certificates for foo.com.dev on server and import in on your local device's chrome.
If your target domain is restricted only for internal purpose, you can bypass it just typing badidea in the chrome window. Further details are available here
For more details about HSTS refer HSTS RFC
I want to be able to set proxy rules on chrome so that when i go to a site defined in a rules file it will connect to it through the proxy. I have tried various extensions like Proxy SwichyOmega but it never seemed to work. What is the best way to achieve this?
I don't think chrome supports this and I don't know any extension that can configure proxy. What I would do is to use a local proxy that can be configured that way. Privoxy for example can do it easily. So you point Chrome to use Privoxy and then you configure Privoxy to do the url specific routing.
How do you tell if a site is an HTTP:// site or an HTTPS:// site? I am just starting to learn some of the more fundamental things about internet security. When you put up a web site is there a special way that you have to set up the html format in the .html files so that the site is secure or is this something that can be purchased from the site provider were you host the web site.
This seems like and easy thing to do but even on stackoverflow what it type in is
stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
There is no HTTP or HTTPS in front of the internet address. Is this implied or is there a way to toggle this on an off in the tools?
HTML Code:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test Title</title>
</head>
<body>
//...code goes here...
</body>
</html>
Is there something that goes in the HTML that determines whether the site is secure or not? Or is this an option on each page when you host the site.
How do you tell if a site is an HTTP:// site or an HTTPS:// site?
By looking at the URL
This seems like and easy thing to do but even on stackoverflow what it type in is
If you type in something that looks like a URL with the scheme missing, then browsers will assume you intended to put http:// in front of it.
Most browsers will hide the http:// part from the address bar for non-SSL sites.
When you put up a web site is there a special way that you have to set up the html format in the .html files so that the site is secure or is this something that can be purchased from the site provider were you host the web site.
To use SSL you need to have an SSL certificate and the web server needs to be configured to use it.
Beyond that, everything comes down to how the server is configured. You could have different sites hosted on http and https, or the same site, or redirect from one to the other, and so on.
Is there something that goes in the HTML that determines whether the site is secure or not?
No. SSL is dealt with at the transport level, not the document level.
Or is this an option on each page when you host the site.
You could configure a server to redirect the URLs for some pages to HTTPS and some to HTTP. This was typically done to save on CPU power for pages where security wasn't needed. Today, CPU power is much cheaper, so it is normally better to use SSL by default.
To make a site secured (an HTTPS) site you need a certificate and add the proper binding that means including a port and protocol by default https uses port 443 and NO, none of those configurations at server level will affect the files serve like your .html files.
HTTP means Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The "S" is Secure.
There is no special definition you can define to ensure a secure HTTP connection.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral.
These certificates can be purchased from companies that provide them. This essentially encrypts any data transferred between the server and person it is responding to.
In short, this is determined by the browser, and different browsers have different strategies.
When you visit a site, such as www.abc.com, different browsers will use different default protocols.
Microsoft Edge will first use http to connect to port 80 of the server. If the server is set to redirect, it will send a 301 move permanently message to allow the client to reconnect to the site using https.
But the new version of chrome will directly use https to connect to the site (port 443), if the connection fails, then connect to http (port 80).
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html
Chrome will now default to HTTPS for most typed navigations that don’t specify a protocol. HTTPS is the more secure and most widely used scheme in Chrome on all major platforms. In addition to being a clear security and privacy improvement, this change improves the initial loading speed of sites that support HTTPS, since Chrome will connect directly to the HTTPS endpoint without needing to be redirected from http:// to https://. For sites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails (including when there are certificate errors, such as name mismatch or untrusted self-signed certificate, or connection errors, such as DNS resolution failure). This change is rolling out initially on Chrome Desktop and Chrome for Android in version 90, with a release for Chrome on iOS following soon after.