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On 30/07/2013 9:28 p.m., csn233 wrote:
Please use "reply all" instead of "reply"!

For intercepted proxy, you only use HTTP/HTTPS interception. So browser
will access FTP site directly. (Unless you have blocked/redirected FTP port)

Amm.
Clicked wrong button... It's to do with the requirement to log all
traffic, including FTP, as well as the caching benefits.

As stated that requirement is impossible to implement via Squid. You need to chop it down to a smaller size. In particular there are many overheads in the TCP/IP layer and in other non-HTTP protocols which Squid cannot measure nor log. Only the system firewall and related Layer-2 software has sufficient access to all the information a full measurement needs.

For all protocols other than plain-text HTTP there are *no* caching benefits from Squid. Squid will simply *add* overheads of processing and possibly some few hundred bytes necessary to setup CONNECT tunnels to peers. Unless you are using ssl-bump to decrypt HTTPS into plain-text HTTP for Squids usage it is also one of those other protocols where you get no caching benefit - because everything a cache needs to use is locked away inside the encryption.


NP: adding SSL-bump just to get a measurement is a very bad reason to do it on a production proxy. Better to accept that HTTPS has no cache gains and leave it for now.

Amos





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