Re: [squid-users] Apache::Gateway emulation?

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 03 Oct 2002 08:20:02 +1000

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 06:10, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Is there any way to emulate Apache::Gateway with Squid-2.5?
>
> http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/C/CC/CCWF/
>
> In a nutshell, the desired behaviour is this:
> 1. the gateway sits at the border of a network, users from outside can
> see only the gateway
> 2. users "see" the gateway in a browser, via HTTPS; encryption is
> mandatory
> 3. users need to authenticate to the gateway in order to use it
> 4. the gateway accepts addresses like
> https://the.gateway.address/?url=http://some.server.inside/some/file.html and does "the right thing": displays the requested URL as it were its own
> 5. should be able to map http, https and ftp servers from inside
>
> Seems like an authenticated encrypted reverse proxy, but with some more
> stuff added.

You should be able to do it easily with 2.6. The SSL acceleration will
allow the https:// bit. A smart redirector will give you the
https://...?url=> to url value translation. The internal HTTP server
and FTP servers will run trivially. You'll need to chat with Henrik
about the SSL gatewaying, as that is needed to access the internal
https:// servers on a new SSL connection.

Rob

Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 16:19:31 MDT

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