Re: [squid-users] HTTPS Connect requests are slow

On 7/31/07, Michele Vetturi <michele.vetturi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm facing troubles with Squid (currently using 3.0PRE5 on Debian
> etch, but already tried 2.6 branch) surfing on https sites (webmail and
> internet banking in particular).
>
> Surfing on those sites, ssl connections seems really slow. The browser
> freeze rendering the page, which appear white but with the correct
> sitename on the titlebar, or it doesn't render the page at all.

Given that Squid doesn't inspect nor cache SSL transactions, have you
considered bypassing Squid for 'https' URLs?

> The strange behavior happens *only* with Internet Explorer (6th
> release, don't know with the 7th). Firefox and Opera works well.

There are bugs in MSIE when using CONNECT for SSL via a proxy, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923535 for one such example.

Kevin
Received on Tue Jul 31 2007 - 18:25:32 MDT