Re: Squid & transparent proxy

On 12:53 11 Mar 2003, Tony Nugent <[email protected]> wrote:
| On Mon Mar 10 2003 at 14:28, "A. Johnson Jeba Asir" wrote:
| 
| > 	I have Redhat 7.2 pc with squid & iptables. https transparent
| > proxy setting is not working. If I configure the client pc to use https
| > proxy (via the browere setting)then it is working fine. What could be the
| > problem?. Can any help me to fix the problem?
| 
| Don't proxy https (port 443), you shouldn't do this (and I think it doesn't
| work by design).  It is meant to be secure, proxying that traffic
| can break this security.

I thought that was what CONNECT was for. It should work, since SSL is
end-to-end; it doesn't care what's in the middle - it's all certificate
based so proxying should work perfectly well.
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