Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy with multiple protocols

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 01:12:48 +0200

On Friday 23 August 2002 23.48, Billy Macdonald wrote:

> HTTPS can't have transparent proxy because the protocol checks for
> that due to the possibility of man in the middle attack.

HTTPS can in theory be transparently proxied just fine, it is only
that it does not make much sense as the proxy cannot do anything with
the data except setting up a full duplex connection forwarding data
between the client and the server. Everything is encrypted.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 23 2002 - 17:15:42 MDT

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