Re: Very basic protocol question

From: Bertold Kolics <bertold@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:09:09 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

> Ok, now that this is history, I have a tougher one: Can I query a
> Squid, telnetting normally, for a HTTPS page?

Squid can not do encryption, it can only do SSL tunneling: if you
have an SSL-enabled browser, you can retrieve pages with SSL encryption,
but Squid acts only as a tunnel (just forwards the connection) for the
secure communication between the user agent and the server.

Bertold
Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 09:00:30 MDT

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