Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid 3.3.8 does not work with mobile app

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 23:41:45 +1200

On 8/05/2014 11:24 p.m., 0bj3ct wrote:
> Amos Jeffries-2 wrote
>> On 8/05/2014 10:33 p.m., 0bj3ct wrote:
>>>
>>> I can reach http websites with squid, but https websites I must add
>>> exception before reaching the site.
>>
>>> I've heard that mobile applications use
>>> HTTPS by default. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Sone do. Some don't. Some use port 80 and 443 for other things than HTTP
>> and HTTPS.
>> Those latter ones are abusing the ports and will always have problems
>> with interception proxies.
>>
>> Amos
>
>
> Hello, Amos.
>
> Yes, You are right. I've noticed that some apps work with intercept proxy,
> but others do not. For example I can use stocks, weather, news feed, cinemas
> and this type applications, but more serious apps that need some
> authentification like facebook, google, linkedin, whatsapp and so on do not
> work with squid. What do you think, what is the problem? Thanks..

I have no idea what the problem could be. Those sounds like some
compliated apps, and it could be anything at all that they are doing
which breaks.

You might be able to get more clues out of a tcpdump packet trace with
full packet bodies (tcpdump options -s0 or -s65535).

Amos
Received on Thu May 08 2014 - 11:41:58 MDT

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