Re: [SQU] transparent proxying and https

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Volker Dormeyer wrote:
>
> > Hmm, this client requests are directed to the internet, not to the
> > gateway. The gateway should catch the packets an forward them to
> > the internal proxy, which forwards the request to the internet. The
> > same as with the transparent proxying feature with normal http traffic.
>
> Yes, but why do you want https to be sent to the proxy rather than
> directly?
>
> The gateway cannot cache or inspect the data other than possibly the
> destination IP.

In theory, I agree wholeheartedly. However I heard somewhere rumours of
servers out there that use combinations of http and https and get upset
and/or unco-operative when the http and https requests come from different
source addresses. If there's any truth in this and http is being
transparently proxied then there would be some motivation to try to
transparently proxy the https also (but how?).

I'd be most grateful if anyone could provide me of such a fussy (broken?)
http/https server.

Regards,
Neale.

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