This is part 2 of my earlier post on how to set configure to use a http proxy transparently. This post deals with extending the same for transparent HTTPS proxying. Click Here for my earlier post which deals with HTTP proxying. For a quick-fix solution and list of files mentioned in this post skip to the bottom of the post. After setting up a transparent http proxy on my dd-wrt router to transparently proxy my HTTP requests I haven’t had any issues for more than a year and was happily able to use it. But up until recently my local network used to allow direct HTTPS connections to external IP addresses. Now my network has disabled that, which means I need to forcefully use the HTTP proxy in order to be able to make HTTPS connections. Surprisingly this caused many more problems than I had anticipated. Lots of applications on android which seemed to work fine after setting proxy settings started failing badly! Notably gmail, hangouts, facebook messenger all only worked very sporadical...
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