Re: [squid-users] Re: Confused about autenthication

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 23:30:55 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Adam Aube wrote:

> What you can do is use Stunnel (or a similar program) to setup an encrypted
> channel between the clients and the proxy server. The username and password
> will travel over this channel and be encrypted in transit.

Or if you use a browser capable of connecting to proxies using https
instead of http then the https_port directive of Squid-2.5 or later can be
used for the proxy port with a identical result.

Actually stunnel is only required on the client, and only if the client is
not capable of using https for proxy connections. stunnel connects fine to
a Squid https_port, eleminating the need of stunnel on the Squid server
to decrypt the request.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 15:30:57 MDT

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