Re: Very basic protocol question

Bertold Kolics wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Ok, now that this is history, I have a tougher one: Can I query a
> > Squid, telnetting normally, for a HTTPS page?
>
> Squid can not do encryption, it can only do SSL tunneling: if you
> have an SSL-enabled browser, you can retrieve pages with SSL encryption,
> but Squid acts only as a tunnel (just forwards the connection) for the
> secure communication between the user agent and the server.

So much for that idea. All right then, is there any other software which
works the way I'm looking for, which is, accepting nonencrypted connections
and making SSL-encrypted connections to the final destination?