Re: [squid-users] SSL and Squid

ons 2007-06-06 klockan 16:05 -0700 skrev Michael Puckett:

> The intention would be that the clients should not even know that the
> top level was using SSL to the origin servers. The clients would make a
> regular http:// access. Of course, if the client does use https://
> accesses then the CONNECT tunneling through the cache servers would be
> expected.

> What do you mean by "act as an accelerator"? Just the regular proxy
> caching? If so , this sounds like what I am after.

In the context it means that Squid knows about the origin servers, and
that SSL needs to be used to talk to these specific origin servers.

See the cache_peer directive.

> > c) It's also possible to do 'b' by using an url rewriter/redirector to
> > rewrite the request from http:// to https:// on the fly.
   
> What would be the advantage of using a url rewriter?

That no other configuration is needed in Squid I guess..

Regards
Henrik