[squid-users] Re: Reverse proxying, SSL and redirecting http to https

user666 wrote:

> We are using squid 2.5 (development) as a reverse proxy with
> OpenSSL to intercept https requests. The connections looks
> like this:
>
> <client>-------<ssl>-------<squid>-------<clear text>------<back end servers>
>
> This works fine so far. We have a small problem however. We would
> like to force clients to speak https instead of http. Right now https
> and http queries are all forwarded as http over the local network. I
> think what we need is a redirect of http:// queries to https://. This
> needs to be a HTTP redirect message so the client proceeds to connect
> to port 443. Is such possible with squid? It should be transparent you see.

Not sure if you can do this in "standard" Squid-2.5, but I know for a
fact that in the "rproxy" branch you can do this with the help of a
redirector that returns the "correct" URL to the client.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker
Received on Tue Oct 23 2001 - 10:52:35 MDT