Open Firefox or Chrome to Write to Sslkeylogfile

Elena Rostova
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I Have Exported a New User Variable Sslkeylogfile Using the Command: Export Sslkeylogfile=($Home)/Sslkeylog. Log If I Open Firefox or Chrome Normally, No...

Open Firefox or Chrome to Write to Sslkeylogfile

I have exported a new user variable SSLKEYLOGFILE using the command:

export SSLKEYLOGFILE=($HOME)/sslkeylog.log

If I open Firefox or Chrome normally, no sslkeylog.log file is created (even if created, its empty even if I browse through ssl traffic through the browser). Is there a special terminal command to open the browsers with these features enabled? If yes then what?

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Omit the parentheses

If you execute export (without parameters) after your command, you will see that SSLKEYLOGFILE is set to (/home/username)/sslkeylog.log, which is not a valid path. Omit the parentheses:

export SSLKEYLOGFILE=$HOME/sslkeylog.log
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