Re: SSL Proxying

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:01:01 +1000

Nate Jensen wrote:

> I am trying to figure out if Squid can do SSL proxying rather than SSL
> tunneling. I've searched the Web and checked out the Squid FAQs, but
> couldn't find anything that described how to do what I need. Here is
> what I'm looking at doing:
>
> [Web Browser]<---SSL/HTTP-->[Squid Proxy]<--HTTP-->[Web Server]
>
> The reason for this approach is because the Web server must not do SSL.
> (I know its weird, but this is what the system specifications state.)
>
> If anyone has insight to documentation somewhere on the Web that
> describes how to do this, I would be appreciative of that. Thank you.
>
> Nate Jensen
> njensen@datanomix.com

Interesting.

I've done this before, though.

Browser <--SSL--> Webserver <---CGI/unencrypted IP---> another webserver

So, you're not speaking to a formal proxy, but to an SSL enabled webserver
that is really handing the requests back to a server behind it.

D
Received on Mon Jun 21 1999 - 15:51:18 MDT

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