Re: [squid-users] Squid as a VPN

and you don't want to encrypt the password on the lan because why?

joelja

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jean-Michel Bonnefond wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm wandering if squid could act as a sort of mini VPN server for my internet
> clients to connect to a LAN server?
>
> In fact I'd like to use squid to provide an https connection to a client and
> connect it to a LAN server which is'nt able to manage https connection like
> this :
>
> Internet Client <===HTTPS===> Squid (on a DMZ) <===HTTP===> LAN Web server
>
> The idea is to do a sort of VPN between the clients and the DMZ in order to
> crypt the user/password transmission over the net, but not in the LAN.
>
> A true VPN solution has been investigated but as The clients are in a large
> panel of OS and version of OS, it seems difficult to implement such a
> solution.
>
> If squid isn't able to do that, have you an idea of how I can implement this
> solution?
>
> Thanks :-)
> Jean-Michel.
>

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