# Cleaned up HTTPS->HTTP proxy code
### entered in vim on RPoJ
### 20190824
Courtesy of Javier on comp.misc (plus a bit I added for /.):
```
$ cat doit.cgi
#!/bin/bash
#depends on curl and gridsite-clients
#change this to your server
server="rpoa"
ths="http:\/\/$server\/cgi-bin\/doit.cgi\?"
req=$(urlencode -d "$1")
req2="$ths$(urlencode "$req")"
dom=$ths"https:\/\/"$( printf "$1" | awk -F[/:] '{print $4}' )
#print your mime header!
if [ "$req"=="
https://slashdot.org/" ]; then
printf "%s\n\n" "Content-Type: text/html"
fi
curl -sS -I "$req" | \
printf "%s\n\n" "$(grep "^Content-Type:" | sed 's@text/plain@text/html@')"
#harvest and massage your content, changing hyperlinks to this proxy
curl -sS "$req" | \
sed "/href=\"[[:alnum:]]/ s@href=\"@href=\"$req2@g; \
/href=\"\// s@href=\"@href=\"https://$dom@g; \
/src=\"[[:alnum:]]/ s@src=\"@src=\"$req2@g; \
/src=\"\// s@src=\"@src=\"$dom@g; \
s@"$req2"http@http@g; \
s@
https://http://@http://@g"
```