Re: [squid-users] https to http translation

On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 14:19 -0600, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> Le dimanche 12 décembre 2010 11:00:43, guest01 a écrit :
> > Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but have you thought of
> > using IPSec? You could deploy IPSec and encrypt every connection from
> > your clients to the Proxy.
> > I don't know what you are trying to achieve, but if your objective is
> > to encrypt connections from the Clients to the proxy, IPSec would be
> > perfectly transparent and scalable.
> >
> > On Sunday, December 12, 2010, purgat <purgatio_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I have seen similar discussions in the list in the past but none exactly
> > > answers my question.
> > > This is the setup I am looking for:
> > > a server somewhere out there runs one or more instances of squid.
> > > user at home sets up the browser to use the proxy.
> > > whenever user puts an address in their browser address bar, request, is
> > > encrypted with ssl and sent to squid. Instances (if more than one is
> > > necessary) of squid then request the page through normal http from the
> > > Internet and send the response through ssl back to the client.
> > > Unfortunately the answers I have seen to this question in past seem to
> > > ignore the fact that the user may want to use different websites. I
> > > don't want just a couple of addresses to be accelerated by squid and
> > > sent through ssl. What I am looking for is not a normal reverse proxy,
> > > glorified with ssl. Unfortunately there is no example of such a setup in
> > > wiki though I know a lot of people would want this set up for securing
> > > data in their unsecure local network. The explanations on the web about
> > > how to set this up come short of explaining a lot of things about an
> > > already complex matter.
> > > Is Squid able to help me with this?
> > > By the way... ssh tunnelling is not an option for me.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > purgat
> As far as I know, this is impossible with squid
> buth there is a mod_ for apache that does that, just look for it
>
> LD

Thanks for the info. I'll check that mod.
Anyone else can confirm this?
Received on Sun Dec 12 2010 - 20:50:31 MST