Re: Squid and SSL

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:13:42 +0100

Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
>
> Correct me in I'm wrong then: Squid clients are screwed if they try to
> access https:// sites on ports other than 443 or 563, ok?

Squid has no such limitation, only the default squid.conf configuration.

The reasons to this default configuration are security. The CONNECT
tunnel method can easily be abused to connect to other services than
SSL. Common examples of such abuses are connecting to telnet, SMTP or
IRC servers.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Tue Mar 23 1999 - 17:29:30 MST

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