Re: Very basic protocol question

From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:25:18 -0300

Bertold Kolics wrote:

> 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.

So much for that idea. All right then, is there any other software which
works the way I'm looking for, which is, accepting nonencrypted connections
and making SSL-encrypted connections to the final destination?

Received on Thu Jul 15 1999 - 09:09:44 MDT

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