[squid-users] add header for https requests that are served to an upstream http server

[Amos Jeffries]

On 16/09/2016 3:13 a.m., Tory M Blue wrote:
> So we are moving from an F5 LB to an AWS ELB. In the F5 we have a irule
> that inserts a header that our origin servers looks for so they can return
> https urls.
> 
> The ELB and Squid combination ends up rewritting the x_forward_proto header


Squid does not have any special handling for that obsolete experimental
header.

Any changes done to it are done by the ELB before it reaches Squid, or
due to the ELB Connection header explicitly instructing Squid that
headers using that name are to be erased before relaying the request.

Amos