Re: [squid-users] Help: transparent Proxy + https problems

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Andi Salimun wrote:

> Hello, I have configured linux slackware box (kernel 2.2) + satellite
> connection + squid. Everything works fine except https site. I have
> also dig the doc, mailing list etc. And try it even with normal dial
> up connection. Still no luck *sigh*.

You cannot do https transparently.

Transparent proxying works by squid being able to read the HTTP request in
the packet stream. If that stream is encrypted, how can you expect squid
to decrypt it?

Colin

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Colin Campbell
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