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system7rocks ◴[] No.43650590[source]
This is sick. I know Classilla, our last somewhat modern web browser, was having issues with SSL/TSL stuff at the end. Maybe this opens the door for some smart hero to revive it a bit.
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userbinator ◴[] No.43650735[source]
A catch-all solution, that I've been using for many years, is to have a MITM proxy on the network do transparent TLS upgrading for everything that passes through it.

Then you'll inevitably run into other more nefarious forms of user-agent-discrimination via TLS fingerprinting[1], in which case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099 will also be useful.

[1] Seeing a TLS 1.3 connection from a system identifying itself as Mac OS 7 will definitely trip a lot of "bot detection" software.

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trinix912 ◴[] No.43651265[source]
Yes, a proxy is the most obvious solution, but quite a bit impractical as you need to keep some other computer/rPi running. It ruins the feeling of being able to use _just_ the retro system to connect to the Internet. Regarding the user-agent, we could just spoof that.
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1. Tommy430 ◴[] No.43652405[source]
In all fairness, we use proxies without realizing it.