Re: https servers acceleration

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Sergey Gribov wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> How can I use Squid to accelerate the https Web server?
> It don't bind himself to the port 443...

You can't. SSL is designed to prevent "man in the middle" intervention.
SSL requires that a session key exchange occure before the request can be
made. Using SSL also adds an overhead to transmission time due to the need
for de/encrypting the communication. Even if it were possible, you would
probably notice very little improvement in performance.

The best way to improve performance is to only put the form/data that
needs to be encrypted on the secured site (and any accompanying cgi
actions). The rest of the site can go on regular accelerated server.

Seeya...Q

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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 17:47:35 MST