Initial prototype of proxy to allow plaintext gateway to HTTPS

dehttps-proxy.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+#
+# Very simple prototype of an HTTP server that can perform HTTPS
+# requests on behalf of a plaintext client.
+#
+# Bobbi June 2020
+#
+# If this client is running on port 8000, then fetching:
+# http://raspberrypi:8000/www.google.com
+# Will fetch https://www.google.com
+#
+
+import http.server, socketserver
+import requests, sys
+
+PORT = 8000
+
+class MyHTTPRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+
+    def __init__(self, req, client_addr, server):
+        http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.__init__(self, req, client_addr, server)
+
+    def do_GET(self):
+        url = 'https:/' + self.path
+        print('Getting {} ...'.format(url))
+        file = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
+        self.send_header("Content-length", len(file.content))
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(file.content)
+
+handler = MyHTTPRequestHandler
+httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), handler)
+httpd.serve_forever()
+