Re: Banking Transactions through Squid using IPCHAINS

Is a copy of a PAC script available ?
/Lars

Kendall Lister wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Dwight Snow wrote:
>
> > Has anyone experienced problems with SSL for on-line banking
> > transactions, preferablely in Canada, and if so how did you remedy the
> > problems.
>
> We experienced problems accessing SSL sites through our transparent
> proxying setup - we believe that this was because we were redirecting port
> 80 requests to Squid, but not port 443, and so the initial setup of the
> connection would appear to come from one host, and then the SSL
> connection from another (our proxy). This caused Hotmail and some bank
> sites to fail; our solution was to manually configure our browsers to use
> our proxy. Now I hear you shout "But doesn't that defeat the purpose of
> using transparent proxying?" - yes and no: we still benefit from the
> reduced administration and forced proxying (ergo caching) of transparent
> proxying, but if a client reports trouble accessing a secure site, we
> instruct them to use our PAC script that sets up their browser.
>
> --
> Kendall Lister, Systems Operator for Charon I.S. - kendall@charon.net.au
> Charon Information Services - Friendly, Cheap Melbourne ISP: 9589 7781
Received on Thu Feb 10 2000 - 15:50:41 MST