Re: [squid-users] HTTPS connections

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:33 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> mån 2007-01-08 klockan 13:52 +0800 skrev Ow Mun Heng:
> > I know SSL connections aren't really supported, but I know it supports
> > pass through connection using the CONNECT method.
>
> Yes...
>
> > Last night, I tried to (i have a transparent proxy setup through my
> > firewall) redirect all HTTPS(Port 443) traffic through squid and ended
> > up with this error message in the logs..
>
> You can't do that. The browsers only use the CONNECT method when
> configured to talk to a proxy. When not configured to talk to a proxy it
> opens a direct SSL connection to the requested server without the
> CONNECT.

Thanks hendrik, that's useful information.
May I ask for this little snippet of information be updated in the FAQ?

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#head-593dae4b6b740816917a6cc2ce5854d3d43624ee
Received on Mon Jan 08 2007 - 17:59:09 MST