Re: [squid-users] https traffic

https means a lot more work for the web server, quite easily causing
overload on the web server CPU, and some more work for your browser.

The amount of handshakes per new connection between your browser and
the web server is also considerably larger with relatively large
amount of data (ca 1KB) causing significant connection setup delays
if the link between the browser and the web server is saturated.

To Squid there should not be much of a difference. At least I have
not noticed any such issues when testing the SSL tunnelling
capabilities of Squid..

Regards
Henrik

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 03:49, richard.fuser@ernstyoung.com.au wrote:
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> Hi Guys,
>
> We use a few https sites within our firm and people always find
> that https traffic seems to travel slower than normal traffic.
>
> Does anyone else expereince this with Squid or in fact any other
> proxy and is there a logical explanation?
>
> I can only imagine the traffic may be slower becasue its encrypted
> and I notice it does a CONNECT for every part of the sites it
> accesses and the site I am most experiencing problems with is
> completley https there is no http at all.
>
> Encyption = CPU time + more bits = slower? does my simple
> explanation make sense
>
> Regards,
> Richard Fuser
> Firewall & UNIX Systems Administrator
>
>
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