Re: [squid-users] p2p and squid

From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:56:08 -0200

Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
>
>
> Marcus Kool escreveu:
>> Yes, indeed Squid *does* support P2P using HTTPS tunneling.
> just to make things clear ..... squid supports connection tunneling
> and not only HTTPS tunneling. A misconfigured squid can be used, for
> example, by worms to send spam emails !!! worms can connect to squid
> port (3128) and issues 'CONNECT' to port 25 and it will work !!!
>
> It can tunnel, as it seems to me, any kind of TCP connection and not
> only HTTPS ones.
>
>> You may use the free ufdbGuard Squid redirector to block
>> HTTPS tunneling.
>> ufdbGuard can also block HTTPS sites which have no valid certificate
> VERY VERY BAD idea on the real world :)

This depend on your requirements. There are plenty security officers
who do not want a HTTPS connection to a site with a homemade certificate.
ufdbGuard offers the option to block or not ...

>> and sites which have no FQDN in the URL.
> very GOOD idea :)
>
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