Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy doubt

On Sat, 8 May 2004, Deepa D wrote:

> I am using squid to run as a transparent proxy
> for traffic heading to port 80. From the documentation
> I understand that in such a case, the HTTP Accelerator
> runs on port 80 and hence I can't reuse the same port
> for my local web server(eg:- Jetty).

You can. The accelerator does not need to run on port 80, but you need to
have other port 80 traffic redirected to the Squid via firewall/NAT rules.

> Secondly, how will the https traffic and traffic
> heading to other ports be handled using the
> transparent proxy feature?

These will be routed like usual, as if there was no proxy.

To proxy this you must have the browser configured to use the proxy.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat May 08 2004 - 11:55:56 MDT