RE: [squid-users] SSL Acceleration

Thread went on a bit af a wander there. So just to confirm.

Squid does support ssl client to squid then non sll squid to target site
acceleration?

With the work at http://squid.sourceforge.net/ssl/

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
Sent: 15 March 2001 22:49
To: Kieran Skinner
Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: [squid-users] SSL Acceleration

Exact match for the SSL support available to Squid.

http://squid.sourceforge.net/ssl/

Accelerators can cache SSL by acting as the SSL endpoint, proxies
cannot.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Kieran Skinner wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use squid as an external front end to a series of Internal
> sites.  Where the external client authenticates to the squid server and
the
> squid server then does some trickery to display internal content.
Obviously
> I am not to keen on sending pretty much (near as damn it) clear text
> username and password across the Internet so would like to use SSL for
> Client to SQUID communications.