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> The author is apparently unaware of the options they have.

Do they really have the options you outlined? The author appears to dealing with a situation involving students in rural Uganda. It might not be as simple in that context as you suggest.

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I thought that the ISP were providing that service as part of the package. Given they do a lot of IP traffic alteration (acknowledging TCP packets at the gateway level instead of letting the client doing it), this is not much.

Obviously I'm not there but it seems like it? They have a HTTP caching proxy already set up which just needs to have a software change to support TLS. I use Squid for this and it works pretty okay.

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