Re: help for squid newbie

Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:51:15 +0000, Dancer wrote:
> >
> >Squid doesn't do plain ftp or email or anything else. It only does the
> >HTTP protocol.
>
> Hmm. It doesn't do HTTPS?
>
> (Secure HTTP doesn't work for me with Squid v2.2S5, but I thought it
> was due to some mis-configuration on my part.)
>
> *** Steve Snyder ***

By strict definition no. Clients pass https (note lower-case) through
HTTP by using an HTTP extension method called 'CONNECT'.

And of course, you can fetch ftp objects, but that's done by HTTP also.

D
Received on Wed Nov 24 1999 - 22:16:08 MST