ReiVo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear All, I want to write a proxy which modifies the requests and responses which go back and forth between MY browser and the web server. Objective is to better control the conversation. Avoid or fake cookies, avoid not desired publicity, make better controls on hostile content etc. something like that:
| Browser |<== http ==>| Proxy Server |<==https==>
first of all: is there something similar already available, just to avoid to reinvent the wheel ? This could be a control centre for a browser, which could be browser independent. thank you very much for every hint on this
reinhard
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Re: Proxy Server Converting requests on the fly
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2014 at 19:52 UTC

    first of all: is there something similar already available, just to avoid to reinvent the wheel ?

    Yeah, mcafee antivirus people have something ... maybe IBM also has something :) (don't ask for names I don't use it)

    avoid not desired publicity

    If you're running the proxy, this doesn't change, esp when you proxy https requests over http

    My other hint is proxy

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Re: Proxy Server Converting requests on the fly
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jul 07, 2014 at 19:59 UTC
    Try Privoxy ... it isn’t a Perl program, but it probably already does what you want to do, in the way that you envision doing it.
Re: Proxy Server Converting requests on the fly
by sam_bakki (Pilgrim) on Jul 10, 2014 at 08:28 UTC
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