Encrypt traffic

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

How do I go about encrypting traffic on port 80?

[paul]

use port 443 ?

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

use port 443 ?

Thanks for the reply, could you be more verbose. How can I redirect all http (non-secure port 80) requests to https (Secure port 443)?

Edited July 4, 2007 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

[Soka]

If you are using apache, enable mod_rewrite in your conf file. Then add the following to httpd.conf or vhost.conf.

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]

Edited July 5, 2007 by Soka

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

I apologise to those who have supplied answers my query, I should have been more specific about what I'm doing and maybe that would get me the answer(s) I am looking for. I am currently trying out Tor, Privoxy and Tork. I have made the required changes to the config files, however when I launch firefox Tork pops up and tells me that my traffic on port 80 is not encrypted. I have looked at the FAQs for Tor, Privoxy and Tork but none of them tell you how to encrypt your browser traffic. What do I need to do to ensure my browser traffic is redirected to port 443?

[Ronin]

I apologise to those who have supplied answers my query, I should have been more specific about what I'm doing and maybe that would get me the answer(s) I am looking for. I am currently trying out Tor, Privoxy and Tork. I have made the required changes to the config files, however when I launch firefox Tork pops up and tells me that my traffic on port 80 is not encrypted. I have looked at the FAQs for Tor, Privoxy and Tork but none of them tell you how to encrypt your browser traffic. What do I need to do to ensure my browser traffic is redirected to port 443?

 

 

Wow no paranoia going on there at all :-)

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

Wow no paranoia going on there at all :-)

Hmm, I hope you don't supply your sensitive username and passwords in cleartext! B)

[Ronin]

Hmm, I hope you don't supply your sensitive username and passwords in cleartext! B)

 

 

No, but I also dont run Tor, Privoxy and Tork because as shocking as it may be no one cares what we are looking at online. Big brother, with a few exceptions, doesn't give a damn about us.

[tyme]

HTTPS is done on the server side. You can't force your browser to force the server to respond on HTTPS only, the server has to first be set up to do it.

 

That is: The server (or web page that you are visiting) determines if you are able to use http or https, not your browser.

[{BBI}Nexus{BBI}]

No, but I also dont run Tor, Privoxy and Tork because as shocking as it may be no one cares what we are looking at online. Big brother, with a few exceptions, doesn't give a damn about us.

Care to qualify that statement with some examples? The fact that you have said it yourself

with a few exceptions

nullifies your response. I did not ask who runs what, where, why and when. It is your choice as to how you interact with the internet I make no issue of it, so please if you don't like how I interact with the internet then have the courtesy to just sit there and tut about it, there's no need for your comments, they in no way help me to resolve the problem. For me it's not about what I look at online, it's about my right to privacy. :D

 

@tyme: Thank you, now I know, it is nothing that I am doing wrong.

 

@Ronin: Obviously you cannot see the smile on my face as I responded to your post. Do not be offended, I am not trying to instigate a 'flame war'. Please take my reply as light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek banter.

Edited July 5, 2007 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}