Re: [squid-users] SSL rev proxy, redirector, 302 problems

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:43:44 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jesse Reynolds wrote:

> Right. So what is the best way of letting the web server know whether
> the client is using HTTP or HTTPS ? We are currently thinking of
> adding some lines to the redirector to add "&ssl=1" to the URLs if
> the user is coming in via HTTPS, so that the application can know to
> generate an https:// url rather than http:// - does this sound like
> the best solution?

I would use the "Front-End-Https: On" header of Squid-3.. you should
avoid the use of redirectors unless you absolutely need to as these only
worsens the situation.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 04 2003 - 02:43:50 MST

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