Re: [squid-users] Squid and SSL - Advisable

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:57:18 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> I'm not sure if Squid should also be configured to handle SSL requests.
> (eg : Squid as a transparent proxy for both port 80 and port 443
> requests)

Only when explicitly configured as proxy.

> I know that squid will try to use the CONNECT method, but I'm wondering
> if it's just overkill because it'll most likely bypass the cache.

If your only interest is caching then there is no sane reasons why to send
https traffic to Squid.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 18:57:19 MST

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