Re: [squid-users] Squid as a VPN

Because the LAN Web server is a blackbox which is maintained by an external
society who will never install ssl on their server arguing they " Haven't
validate ssl for their product !! ".

Jean-Michel.

Le Mercredi 16 Avril 2003 18:27, vous avez écrit :
> and you don't want to encrypt the password on the lan because why?
>
> joelja
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jean-Michel Bonnefond wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm wandering if squid could act as a sort of mini VPN server for my
> > internet clients to connect to a LAN server?
> >
> > In fact I'd like to use squid to provide an https connection to a client
> > and connect it to a LAN server which is'nt able to manage https
> > connection like this :
> >
> > Internet Client <===HTTPS===> Squid (on a DMZ) <===HTTP===> LAN Web
> > server
> >
> > The idea is to do a sort of VPN between the clients and the DMZ in order
> > to crypt the user/password transmission over the net, but not in the LAN.
> >
> > A true VPN solution has been investigated but as The clients are in a
> > large panel of OS and version of OS, it seems difficult to implement such
> > a solution.
> >
> > If squid isn't able to do that, have you an idea of how I can implement
> > this solution?
> >
> > Thanks :-)
> > Jean-Michel.
Received on Thu Apr 17 2003 - 01:47:12 MDT