Gavin van Lelyveld MDCore
MDCore
/ 2-https-proxy.lua
Created
July 9, 2026 23:03
koreader patch to allow http proxies when using tailscale
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| -- 2-https-proxy.lua | |
| -- KOReader userpatch: enable HTTPS requests through an HTTP CONNECT proxy. | |
| -- | |
| -- Stock LuaSec (ssl.https) refuses to use a proxy for HTTPS ("proxy not | |
| -- supported"). This is a problem when reaching tailnet services via a | |
| -- userspace Tailscale HTTP-CONNECT proxy (e.g. 127.0.0.1:1056) on devices | |
| -- with no TUN module, where DNS for *.ts.net can't be resolved locally. | |
| -- | |
| -- This patch reimplements ssl.https' internal `tcp` connector to open a | |
| -- CONNECT tunnel through the proxy (so the proxy resolves the hostname and |