Re: [squid-users] can squid help out in this situation?

jscripter wrote:
> We have a group of application servers which connect to another internal web
> service using SSL.
> Due to limitations in the software, a new SSL connection has to be created
> for every request.
>
> Also, for whatever reason, when connecting to the web service an HTTP
> REDIRECT is always issued redirecting the client to another server.
>
> Can squid be used as a reverse proxy to the web service so that:
>
> 1. the application servers connect to squid using HTTP (perhaps through a
> Unix domain socket) and squid proxies the connection as an HTTPS connection
> to the web service
> 2. squid keeps the HTTPS connection open for future requests possibly for
> different application servers
>
> ???

Squid can do that yes.
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/BasicAccelerator

The redirect is a possible problem, since Squid will still relay that
out to the web app.

Amos

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