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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #51516, comment 149

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1	1	I suppose the underlying issue we're dealing with here is also the reason why many native apps on legacy OS versions will no longer connect to websites and services?
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3		There's also a way to fix that with a proxy server: https://jonathanalland.com/downloads/legacy-mac-proxy.dmg . That particular solution works at the system-wide level and would interfere with the functioning of MacPorts applications using up-to-date secure-connection libraries but it might be possible to use a dedicated proxy used only by MacPorts itself? Mostly thinking aloud: this might be usable as a bootstrapping solution?
	3	There's also a way to fix that with a proxy server: https://jonathanalland.com/downloads/legacy-mac-proxy.dmg (from https://jonathanalland.com/old-osx-projects.html). That particular solution works at the system-wide level and would interfere with the functioning of MacPorts applications using up-to-date secure-connection libraries but it might be possible to use a dedicated proxy used only by MacPorts itself? Mostly thinking aloud: this might be usable as a bootstrapping solution?
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5	5	And out of curiosity, I think we cannot build a sufficiently feature-full version of Apple's SecureTransport fw ourselves, but could we redistribute a sufficiently current version, (to be) relinked with `libMacportsLegacySupport.dylib`?