Re: [squid-users] Incoming plain connection, outgoing ssl connection

Davide Vernizzi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:35 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can I have an incoming connection on the port 80 and forward it to the
>>> destination on another port within a ssl connection?
>>>
>>> I try to explain with a diagram:
>>>
>>> Web
>>> Browser ----> Squid =====> Destination
>>> http https
>>> port port
>>> 80 443
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>> Yes. It happens on two occasions:
>> - ssl options set on the cache_peer config.
>> - client requests a URI from cache as https://...
>>
>>
>> Amos
>
> Thanks Amos,
>
> what I wanted to know is if it is possible to force this behavior so
> that the web browser requests a specified web page and squid redirects
> this request to another server using a SSL connection.
>
> Original
> destination
> (x.x.x.x:P)
>
>
> Web
> Browser ----> Squid =====> Squid-modified
> http https destination
> request to (y.y.y.y:Q)
> for y.y.y.y:Q
> x.x.x.x:P
>
> Thanks.
>

If its for a small set of pre-known domain or URI, its easy.

Thats exactly how the cache_peer way works. The alternate to that under
the same conditions a custom redirector can change the URI to pretty
much anything before squid opens its outbound link.

Amos
Received on Wed Nov 28 2007 - 01:26:22 MST