Re: [squid-users] squid reverse proxy and https

Marc Elsen wrote:
>
> Rainer Traut wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm trying to find out if it's possible
>>to let squid pass https requests to a web server in accelerated mode:
>>
>>/client -- (https) --> Squid --- (https) ---> origin server /
>>
>>I know this was on the mailing list one year ago, and at that time
>>it was not possible.
>>I need to do this because all we can do is let squid talk to our webserver
>>in this special subnet but we cannot do this directly and cannot change
>>anything
>>on our webserver.
>>I managed to get this working for http, but not https.
>>
>
>
> I believe this is possible , now with squid 2.5.

Only half of what is pictured above is possible with any current Squid:

client -- (https) --> Squid --- (http) ---> origin server

i.e. The client can talk https to Squid, but Squid can't talk https to
the origin. As far as I know anyway.

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