Re: [squid-users] WCCPv2 and HTTPS problems

From: Dalibor Dukic <dalibor.dukic@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:06:11 +0100

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:15 +0545, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007, Hemant Raj Chhetri wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Adrian,
> >> I am also facing the same problem with https
> >> sites. Yahoo works fine with me but I am having problem
> >> with hotmail. Please advice me on how do I handle this or
> >> is there any guide which I can refer to.
> >
> > I don't know of an easy way to handle this, I'm sorry. I know how I'd handle
> > it in Squid-2.6 but it'd require a couple weeks of work and another few weeks
> > of testing.
>
> I have 2 FreeBSD-6.2 transparent Squid proxies using WCCP2 with a Cisco
> 3620 router. Up till now, I am not facing any HTTPS problem. At least,
> nobody is complaining about Hotmail and Yahoo web mail services.

Are clients on private address space? If You NATed clients and squid on
same address web server see just one address.

> >
> > (Considering how much of a problem this has caused people in the past I'm
> > surprised a solution hasn't been contributed back to the project..)
>
> Maybe, the solution lies on the setup of the Operating System, Squid and
> Router itself.

I don't think so. HTTPS request are not forwarded to squid box in
web-cache service group only port HTTP.

> Thanking you...
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
>
>
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