Doesn&#x27;t HTTPS explicitly support an intercepting, deep-inspecting, proxy? So if I want to reduce bandwidth at my site - or scan for malware, I can install a SSL-certificate my clients trust, and proxy the HTTPS connections, with eg. squid? Just because there are many nefarious uses of an SSL proxy&#x2F;mitm, doesn&#x27;t mean that there aren&#x27;t good uses for it too?<p>As bandwidth to even home users go up, the need for local caching proxies might go down -- but at the same time, Netflix is an example of how the current architecture of the Internet isn&#x27;t enough if you want to do individual media streaming (they maintain their own caches, but that just means that if one wanted to distribute a few TB of hd video, say an independent documentary series, or even a video diary, one might expect to either have to pay a high bandwidth bill, or do some &quot;proximity caching&quot;). Alternatives exist of course, such as using a torrent for distribution -- but throwing out all ideas of content proxying &quot;beacause TLS&quot; seems misguided.