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Title: RE: squid-users Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4

Message: 5

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:09:20 +1300

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Can Squid communicate http to clients

        connecting to https sites?

Message-ID: <ee0bea25-6a0b-0090-f23f-05bc8d51edb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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On 2/11/2016 12:55 p.m., vze2k3sa wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I have a question around have Squid which is configured to handle all

> company traffic to and from the web. When connecting to an SSL

> website, HTTP Connect is used. Can Squid be configured so all the

> inbound SSL traffic is SSL decrypted and send back to clients as clear text http traffic?


>The CONNECT message *is* clear-text HTTP. So already it is doing what you asked. But I think what you want is not want you are asking for.

>Squid supports receiving requests for https:// URLs from clients on regular TCP connections and will perform the HTTPS part for them.

>Squid also supports clients using TLS to connect to the proxy, then to pass it requests for https:// URLs. There is a sad lack of clients that support doing that though.


>If the client is performing TLS to the origin server, then no. You cannot reply with plain-text HTTP to them. Your only choice in that case is the SSL-Bump feature.

>Amos


Thanks Amos for the reply.

What I'm looking for is to send all client requests http and get replies back as http where I don't care if the internet site requires SSL or not.

If a site does require SSL then can squid handles that where again the responses back to the client are http.

-Patrick

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