Re: [squid-users] https_port question

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:15, Michael Pophal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I use the LWP user agent from CPAN, I can not use https via the
> squid. The reason:
> LWP doesn't make an connect, it makes a
> 'GET https://....' and expects the proxy to do the ssl connection with
> the webserver.
> I assume the same phenomenon with some home-banking java applications,
> which can not work with squid.
>
> Here the question:
> is the squid directive 'https_port' the right way to solve this problem?

by default, I doubt https proxy will work. The contents are encrypted
anyway. I'm not sure but you can try.

The other way to get them to work is to use the CONNECT feature. Stuffs
like AIM/Yahoo etc will work if you use CONNECT.

Look at the
acl safe_ports

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