Henrik
Just for closure now the system is now up and running as we wanted and
I have a moment to relax.
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 04:18 pm, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Richard Barrett wrote:
>
>> My objective is to use Squid as an https reverse proxy front ending an
>> Apache server. Squid is happily terminating incoming https connections
>> from the browser and making http requests to the Apache server. But I
>> want the requests from Squid to Apache to also use https so that Squid
>> is functioning as a transparent https 'gateway'.
>
> The easies way of doing this in Squid-2.5 is to use the Apache as a
> "parent" to your Squid with the ssl cache_peer flag.
>
> cache_peer your.apache.server parent 80 0 no-query ssl
> never_direct allow all
>
This worked OK but I had to change the parent port to 443 from 80.
Many thanks for your help.
Richard
> Another way is to use a redirector helper to rewrite the accelerated
> URLs
> to https://...
>
> In Squid-3 this is considerably easier and works a bit better (except
> for
> the fact Squid-3 is still under development and is somewhat of a moving
> target..)
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
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