Re: [squid-users] Yet another IMAP support request

Okay. Any pointer what can be achieved with Squid's HTTP CONNECT method?

Quote:
"The "tunnel CONNECT" patch mentioned in the thread might help, but only
if you have a target that accepts what has been tunneled."

If I understand you correctly, the IMAP server should wrap IMAP
responses with HTTP responses, and accept IMAP requests wrapped with
HTTP requests?

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Jakob Curdes <jc_at_info-systems.de> wrote:
> Sabyasachi Ruj schrieb:
>>
>> I went through this thread:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-users@squid-cache.org/msg59892.html.
>> I also needed that IMAP to work via Squid.  There was no conclusion on
>> that thread.
>>
>> Is it possible to use Squid for IMAP traffic using HTTP's CONNECT
>> method? If not, can anybody tell us the reason? I thought CONNECT can
>> be used to achieve the same functionality that SOCKS can provide? Am I
>> missing something?
>>
>
> No, you are not missing something, currently this is not possible.
>
> Squid concentrateds on being a good HTTP proxy with some limited
> functionality RE https.
> The "tunnel CONNECT" patch mentioned in the thread might help, but only
> if you have a target that accepts what has been tunneled.
> I.E. you could try to tunnel IMAP via SSL but only if the target mailserver
> accepts SSL.
> It is probably impossible to tunnel a plain IMAP connection in this way as
> your target mailserver will not understand the protocol being delivered.
>
> HTH,
> Jakob Curdes
>
>
>

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Sabyasachi