Re: https servers acceleration

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:41:42 +0100

Sergey Gribov wrote:

> How can I use Squid to accelerate the https Web server?
> It don't bind himself to the port 443...

https can't be accelerated. Only way to accelerate https is to have a
faster https server.

https is using SSL as transport carrier, and SSL is a encrypted
end-to-end communication with challange based server and client
authentication. A accelerator can't intercept a SSL stream and thus it
can't be accelerated.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 18:53:24 MST

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