Re: SSL encryption patch.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000, Benno Rice wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a patch against squid 2.4-DEVEL2 that allows Squid to do SSL
> encryption.
>
> Why, you ask?
>
> For http acceleration mode, mainly. We're using squid as a caching
> accelerator for some work we're doing, where we wanted to be able to
> offload the SSL encryption.
>
> This required some messing about with some of the guts of squid. The
> main change I made is that I added a read_method and a write_method
> field to the fde struct, and changed all calls to read() and write() to
> calls to those methods. Then I overrode the methods for the SSL case.
>
> The patch is available at:
> http://netizen.com.au/~benno/squid-ssl-patch.tar.gz
>
> It requires OpenSSL 0.9.4 or later to build.
>
> All comments, criticisms and the like appreciated.

It looks neat. Has anyone else played with this?

Adrian
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 06:16:51 MDT