Re: [squid-users] Squid as HTTPS Proxy Server

Keefe John wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a standard squid proxy server setup doing forward
> proxying. I'd like to encrypt the traffic between the clients and the
> squid server.

Have you found a browser that supports this? None of the big four (IE,
Firefox, Safari or Chrome) do. All support proxying HTTPS traffic
(CONNECT tunneling), but none encrypt all traffic between themselves and
the proxy.

> Can squid act as standard proxy and accept HTTPS Proxy
> requests? I understand that this is not possible in squid 2.x but
> possibly 3.x. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Look into using a tool such as stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/).

> Thanks,
>
> Keefe

Chris
Received on Wed Feb 04 2009 - 19:57:44 MST