Re: [squid-users] https to http translation

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:05:19 +0000

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:06:01 +0330, purgat wrote:
> Hey
> ok let me see if I got this right (excuse the noob!):
> Let's say you set up squid to listen to ssl over 8081 and set up proxy
> settings of your browser to use 8081 for both http and https. Now if you
> type in an address with https in your browser you will send your data to
> squid over ssl (probably ssl of the target website) but if you use http,
> browser will not understand that the proxy on the other side is looking
> for an ssl connection. Did I get this right?

Yes.

> If that is the case, one other option would be setting up a proxy daemon
> on the local machine and try to get it connected to the main proxy
> server over an encrypted connection. Can THAT be done with squid?

Yes, people have had success with stunnel and others. I don't do it myself
so can't help with the config side of those.

Amos
Received on Tue Dec 14 2010 - 01:05:22 MST

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