Re: [squid-users] general squid questions

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:44:22 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Daniel Spratlen wrote:

> With delegate I can do a tcp relay, which is taking https requests from
> a client and passing the encrypted traffic to the server (and back again
> obviously). Is it possible to provide this functionality with squid?

No. Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a TCP relay.

What you can do with Squid is to have Squid act as the SSL enpoint, and
then proxy the http request to your web server unencrypted.

In Squid-3.0 you will also be able to have Squid re-encrypt the request if
desired.

> Is it possible to use the ACL functionality of squid to filter based on
> user agent?

Yes.

> Is it possible to limit the number of concurrent http/https sessions a
> user may have (based on ip address)?

Yes.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Apr 30 2005 - 14:44:24 MDT

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