Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy for CONNECT method

On 07.04.09 19:27, nyoman karna wrote:
> it's been long I've accepted the fact
> that transparent proxy will not work for CONNECT method
> because of security issues (considered as man-in-the-middle attack).
>
> but perhaps there's a way to get around this problem?
> because everyone will stuck with using GMail, YahooMail, etc
> since they're all using HTTPS for signing in.

disable HTTPS usage or live with the fact t can not be proxied.
The whole purpose of HTTPS is that noone in the middle (proxy or admin of
intermediate gateway) can see the content (and thut there's nothing to
proxy).

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