[squid-users] https traffic

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Hi Guys,

We use a few https sites within our firm and people always find that https
traffic seems to travel slower than normal traffic.

Does anyone else expereince this with Squid or in fact any other proxy and
is there a logical explanation?

I can only imagine the traffic may be slower becasue its encrypted and I
notice it does a CONNECT for every part of the sites it accesses and the
site I am most experiencing problems with is completley https there is no
http at all.

Encyption = CPU time + more bits = slower? does my simple explanation
make sense

Regards,
Richard Fuser
Firewall & UNIX Systems Administrator

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