privoxy: add support for https inspection

Creates CA and server cert for use with https inspection

Signed-off-by: Richard Schneidt <ricsc@t-online.de>
This commit is contained in:
Richard Schneidt
2026-06-07 16:09:05 +02:00
committed by Alexandru Ardelean
parent 335244d32c
commit d373e0ec7d
5 changed files with 112 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ if PACKAGE_privoxy
depends on !PRIVOXY_no_zlib
default n
config PRIVOXY_enable-https-inspection
bool "Allow Privoxy to filter encrypted requests and responses. "
help
Allow Privoxy to filter encrypted requests and responses. Requires openssl support.
depends on !PRIVOXY_no_openssl
default n
endif
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@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ PKG_CONFIG_DEPENDS:= \
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-external-filters \
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-accept-filter \
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-strptime-sanity-checks \
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-compression
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-compression \
CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-https-inspection
include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ define Package/privoxy
URL:=https://www.privoxy.org/
USERID:=privoxy=8118:privoxy=8118
MENU:=1
DEPENDS:=+!PRIVOXY_no_pcre:libpcre2 +!PRIVOXY_no_pthread:libpthread +!PRIVOXY_no_zlib:zlib
DEPENDS:=+!PRIVOXY_no_pcre:libpcre2 +!PRIVOXY_no_pthread:libpthread +!PRIVOXY_no_zlib:zlib +!PRIVOXY_no_openssl:libopenssl
endef
# shown in LuCI package description
@@ -106,7 +107,8 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-external-filters),--enable-external-filters) \
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-accept-filter),--enable-accept-filter) \
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-strptime-sanity-checks),--enable-strptime-sanity-checks) \
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-compression),--enable-compression)
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-compression),--enable-compression) \
$(if $(CONFIG_PRIVOXY_enable-https-inspection),--with-openssl)
# needed otherwise errors during compile
MAKE_FLAGS:=
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@@ -36,9 +36,20 @@ config privoxy 'privoxy'
option split_large_forms '0'
option keep_alive_timeout '300'
option socket_timeout '300'
option receive-buffer-size '30000'
list permit_access '192.168.1.0/24'
option debug_1 '0'
option debug_512 '1'
option debug_1024 '0'
option debug_4096 '1'
option debug_8192 '1'
#
# HTTPS Inspection (Section 7.7 of Privoxy User Manual)
#
# option enable_ssl_bumping '0'
# option certdir '/etc/privoxy/ssl'
# option ca_common_name 'Privoxy CA'
# option ca_validity_days '3650'
# option cert_validity_days '365'
# option cert_key_size '2048'
# list trustfile 'user.trust'
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ STOP=10
PIDFILE=/var/run/privoxy.pid
CFGFILE=/var/etc/privoxy.conf
CFGTEMP=/var/etc/privoxy.conf.tmp
SSLCERTSTEMP=/var/ssl
_uci2conf() {
# redefined callback for options when calling config_load
@@ -33,6 +34,12 @@ _uci2conf() {
echo $__OPT | grep -i "_LENGTH" >/dev/null 2>&1 && return
# detect list options (ITEM) and ignore
echo $__OPT | grep -i "_ITEM" >/dev/null 2>&1 && __OPT=$(echo $__OPT | sed -e "s#_ITEM.*##g")
# Ignore certificate generation options (used only in init script)
case $__OPT in
certdir|ca_common_name|ca_validity_days|cert_validity_days|cert_key_size|enable_ssl_bumping|boot_delay|_enabled)
return
;;
esac
# uci only accept "_" but we need "-"
local __OPT=$(echo $__OPT | sed -e "s#_#-#g")
# write to config
@@ -71,7 +78,8 @@ _uci2conf() {
chown privoxy:privoxy $_LOGDIR/$_LOGFILE
echo -e "logdir\t$_LOGDIR" >> $CFGTEMP
echo -e "logfile\t$_LOGFILE" >> $CFGTEMP
_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.receive-buffer-size) || _RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE="30000"
echo -e "receive-buffer-size\t$_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE" >> $CFGTEMP
# confdir
# privoxy needs read access (possibly write access)
_CONFDIR=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.confdir) || _CONFDIR="/etc/privoxy"
@@ -103,6 +111,80 @@ _uci2conf() {
echo -e "temporary-directory\t$_TMP_DIR" >> $CFGTEMP
fi
# HTTPS Inspection (Section 7.7)
# ca-directory - directory for CA certificate and key files
# certificate-directory - directory for generated certificates
_CERT_DIR=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.certdir)
if [ -n "$_CERT_DIR" ]; then
mkdir -m0700 -p $_CERT_DIR
chown privoxy:privoxy $_CERT_DIR
chmod 700 $_CERT_DIR
# Generate CA certificate if it doesn't exist or regeneration requested
_CA_CERT="$_CERT_DIR/ca-cert.pem"
_CA_KEY="$_CERT_DIR/ca-key.pem"
_REGEN_FILE="/etc/privoxy/regenerate_ca"
if [ -f "$_REGEN_FILE" ]; then
rm -f "$_CA_CERT" "$_CA_KEY"
rm -f "$_REGEN_FILE"
fi
if [ ! -f "$_CA_CERT" ] || [ ! -f "$_CA_KEY" ]; then
_CA_NAME=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.ca_common_name) || _CA_NAME="Privoxy CA"
_CA_DAYS=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.ca_validity_days) || _CA_DAYS="3650"
_CERT_DAYS=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.cert_validity_days) || _CERT_DAYS="365"
_CERT_KEY_SIZE=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.cert_key_size) || _CERT_KEY_SIZE="2048"
logger -p daemon.info -t "privoxy[]" "Generating CA certificate for HTTPS inspection"
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:$_CERT_KEY_SIZE -days $_CA_DAYS -nodes -x509 \
-subj "/CN=$_CA_NAME" -keyout "$_CA_KEY" -out "$_CA_CERT" 2>/dev/null
fi
# Set permissions: CA cert is public (readable by all), private key is secure
chmod 644 "$_CA_CERT"
chown root:root "$_CA_CERT"
chmod 600 "$_CA_KEY"
chown privoxy:privoxy "$_CA_KEY"
# Create symlink for trustedCAs.pem pointing to system CA certificates
_TRUSTED_CAS="$_CERT_DIR/trustedCAs.pem"
_SYSTEM_CA_CRT="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
if [ ! -f "$_TRUSTED_CAS" ]; then
if [ -f "$_SYSTEM_CA_CRT" ]; then
ln -sf "$_SYSTEM_CA_CRT" "$_TRUSTED_CAS"
else
# Fallback: use the CA bundle from ca-cert package
_CA_BUNDLE="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
if [ -f "$_CA_BUNDLE" ]; then
ln -sf "$_CA_BUNDLE" "$_TRUSTED_CAS"
fi
fi
fi
# Write ca-directory directive (directory containing ca-cert.pem and ca-key.pem)
echo -e "ca-directory\t$_CERT_DIR" >> $CFGTEMP
# Write ca-cert-file directive (full path to CA certificate)
echo -e "ca-cert-file\t$_CA_CERT" >> $CFGTEMP
# Write ca-key-file directive (full path to CA key)
echo -e "ca-key-file\t$_CA_KEY" >> $CFGTEMP
# Write certificate-directory directive (directory for generated certificates)
mkdir -m777 -p $SSLCERTSTEMP
echo -e "certificate-directory\t$SSLCERTSTEMP" >> $CFGTEMP
fi
# enable-ssl-bumping
_SSL_BUMP=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.enable_ssl_bumping)
if [ "$_SSL_BUMP" = "1" ]; then
echo -e "enable-ssl-bumping\t1" >> $CFGTEMP
fi
# trustfile
_TRUSTFILE=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.trustfile)
if [ -n "$_TRUSTFILE" ]; then
echo -e "trustfile\t$_TRUSTFILE" >> $CFGTEMP
fi
config_load "privoxy" # calling above option_cb() and write the rest into $CFGTEMP
# move temp to final privoxy readable configuration
@@ -111,6 +193,9 @@ _uci2conf() {
}
boot() {
# check if privoxy is enabled
[ "$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy._enabled)" != "1" ] && return 0
# wait a given time (default 10 seconds) before startup
# to wait for interfaces to come up / not using hotplug events during boot
_start() {
@@ -122,7 +207,7 @@ boot() {
}
local _DELAY
_DELAY=$(uci_get "privoxy" "system" "boot_delay" "10")
_DELAY=$(uci -q get privoxy.privoxy.boot_delay)
_start $_DELAY &
return 0
}
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@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
/etc/privoxy/user.action
/etc/privoxy/user.filter
/etc/privoxy/user.trust
/etc/privoxy/ssl