Re: [squid-users] New to Squid and Linux

I think you have the wrong acronym. Do you really want a SSL connection
as in a "https" connection? In reading this thread you keep typing SSH,
but do you really need to use is SSL.

Tim

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mjmcgraw@wackyonline.com wrote:
> I'm trying to use SSH to tunnel my traffic to the machine that is
> running squid. The machines are not on the same network.
>
> Michael
>
> Quoting Christoph Haas <email@christoph-haas.de>:
>
>> On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:46, mjmcgraw@wackyonline.com wrote:
>>> Now it works from the local machine that is actually running squid,
>>> but when I try to SSH using Putty into the squid host I get nothing. I
>>> am forwarding port 3128 with Putty and setting the brower to use
>>> localhost:3128 for proxy.
>>
>> Just point your browser to the proxy server on port 3128. SSH is not
>> needed.
>>
>>> Maybe I'm understanding this wrong but I thought if I used SSH to
>>> connect to the squid host it would appear as a local connection and
>>> the acl for localhost for work.
>>
>> SSH supports port forwarding. But that's surely not the normal mode of
>> operation and proxy surfing.
>>
>> I hope it's clear that Squid is a HTTP proxy which is not at all
>> connected
>> to SSH.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
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Received on Thu Aug 03 2006 - 11:58:31 MDT