RE: [squid-users] reverse ssl-proxy?

Thanks Anthony.

In short, both. the scenario is we have multiple web servers on the
intranet that we need to make available from the internet for roaming
salespeople. What I'm looking to do is have squid act as a web proxy so
that the salespeople can hit https://sqid.somewhere.com and be able to get
to the intranet servers. I'm thinking something along the lines of
//squid.x.com/server1 gets proxied to server1.intranet.com,
//squid.x.com/server2 gets proxied to server2.intranet.com, etc.

does that make sense?

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:10 PM
To: 'squid-users@squid-cache.org'
Subject: Re: [squid-users] reverse ssl-proxy?

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 7:42 pm, John Hally wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Is it possible to use squid as a reverse proxy to give access to intranet
> servers from remote clients?

Yes.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-20.html

> What I'd like to do is have clients use SSL from their browsers and hit a
> single host, which would then allow them access to intranet web resources.
> Kind of a poor-mans VPN. Has anyone attempted something similiar?

What are you trying to achieve here?

Restricted access to intranet resources? (In which case, where/how are you

authenticating people?)

Confidentiality across the Internet? (In which case, why not just use
simple HTTPS direct from client to server?)

Antony.

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