https in accelerator mode?

From: Santini de Sigel, Irene <santini@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:16:29 MET

> From: Viktor Korotkikh, Computer Support, Mt Albert HortResearch
> From: crotherm@roses.bna.boeing.com (Mark A. Crother)
   . . .
> > I am looking for some informtion on how squid handles https. Does squid
> > care what the encryption key length is, or does sqiud not care?
>
> It handles SSL quite well accordingly default configuration:
>
> acl SSL_ports port 443 563
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
>
> Squid doesn't care about all encryption stuff, it just pass it through
> with CONNECT method.

What about using squid as an accelerator?
Does it understand HTTPS requests?
Can it pass incoming requests like "https://..." to an ssl-webserver?

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 Irene Santini de Sigel
 ZADI / Abt. Entwicklung
 santini@zadi.de
Received on Thu Mar 13 1997 - 23:28:33 MST

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