Re: [SQU] SSL with httpd_acceleration

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:04:02 +0100

https servers cannot normally be accelerated due to the SSL encryption.

What can be done with a patched development version od Squid is to move
the SSL engine from the web server to Squid. See
http://squid.sourceforge.net/projects.html#ssl.

Most likely your RH 7.0 server has a https server installed, and it is
the certificate from this https server your browser are receiving.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Thimal Jayasooriya wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>       After lurking for quite some time, and reading all the posts on
> this subject, I still haven't found a definitive answer to my question..
> so, please do tell me to RTFM or the archive if its available
> somewhere...
>     My question is,
> I've setup Squid as a httpd accelerator (RH 7.0, Squid 2.3 stable
> 4). However, the most recent requirement is that the backend
> webserver, IIS, also process some SSL requests. Unfortunately,  I
> get an error message at the client browser saying that the
> certificate is invalid.. and that the host is not trusted.. basically,
> that SSL doesn't work..it works fine when I go direct to the
> webserver, btw..
> However, I do get a certificate from localhost.localdomain (the
> default cert. from RH installation) when I go through Squid... which I
> thought was weird.. anyway...
> has anyone on this list actually tried to accelerate a webserver that
> handles SSL.. is it even possible.. ? After reading posts that are
> related, my feeling on this is that Squid can't handle SSL because
> it is after all, just an HTTP proxy, not for anything fancy like
> HTTPS.. in which case, I'd really like to know of a workaround or
> alternately a means to modify the Squid source to allow this...I'm
> quite willing to wade through C source code to get this done,
> assuming my C knowhow is adequate, of course ;o)
> 
> 've already tried url_regex with always_direct for https, with no
> luck...
> 
> Any information appreciated..
> Thanks in advance,
> Thimal
> 
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