Re: Re : Re: about https

The request to Squid is

CONNECT www.hotmail.com:443 HTTP/1.0

Squid has no way of knowing what the actual requested URL or protocol
is for these requests. All it knows is that the browser wants a TCP
tunnel to port 443 on host www.hotmail.com. Because of this the
protocol is NONE and the method is CONNECT.

If Squid is running as an accelerator for an SSL site then the
situation is very different, as Squid will then receive the SSL
connection, decrypt it, and then process the https:// request within
it. In such case the protocol will be HTTPS and the method whatever
method the browser wants to do to the site (via the accelerator). But
this is only possible in accelerator setups, not proxy setups (not
even transparent ones..)

Regards
Henrik

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10.53, atit_ldce wrote:
> why protocol is PROTO_NONE i think it should me PROTO_HTTPS as
> request is https://www.hotmail.com and in yr last mail u mentioned
> the same that PROTO_HTTPS for https request...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
> To: atit_ldce <atit_ldce@icenet.net>
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Sent: Mon Mar 03 21:33:43 GMT+05:30 2003
> Subject: Re: about https
>
> mån 2003-03-03 klockan 19.46 skrev atit_ldce:
> > i am using intenet explorer 5.x
> > when i enter https://www.hotmail.com
> >
> > what will be type of protocol taken by squid
>
> Assuming you are using Squid as a proxy then the protocol will be
> NONE with a request method of CONNECT.
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 01:07:14 MST