[Windmill-dev] Should SSL work?

[Mikeal Rogers]

Windmill isn't a valid SSL proxy at the moment.

All SSL traffic will skip the proxy all together since the browser  
isn't configured to send it through windmill's proxy.

This is a feature we plan to do in 0.3, when we migrate to twisted.  
Right now all the SSL work would basically be throw away since it's  
all getting refactored for twisted.

Once we support SSL, you can get around the alert by moving the  
windmill firefox profile to a new location, configuring a few options  
in to tell windmill not to build a new profile and keep using the one  
you have in another location, and sticking the self-signed SSL cert  
in there.

I added a comment to the ticket stating that we'll be doing this in  
the next release.

Thanks,

-Mikeal

On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Ed Hager wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was giving Windmill a try for the first time creating a script in  
> my development environment for the retail website at  
> www.go2marine.com.  My script was going through the process of  
> placing an item in the shopping cart and then checking out.  When  
> you click the checkout link on the site, you are redirected to an  
> SSL connection.  This happens even in my development environment.
>
> I am starting my Windmill script from the command line.  When the  
> script gets to the point of the SSL redirect, I am always prompted  
> by Firefox to review the SSL certificate.  This does not normally  
> happen in my development environment because I have my self-signed  
> SSL certificate installed in my browser.  I am assuming that  
> windmill is inserting itself as a proxy and that is somehow  
> tripping Firefox's certificate validation.  Would there be a way to  
> stop this alert in Firefox?  Could I generate an SSL certificate  
> that would make Firefox happy?
>
> Once I get past the SSL certificate validation, my Windmill script  
> stops interacting properly with the web page.  It fails to fill in  
> simple text fields and no longer triggers button clicks.  Is that  
> related to this ticket I found?
>
> http://windmill.osafoundation.org/trac/ticket/5
>
> Windmill looks very promising.  Great job everyone.
>
> Ed Hager
>
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