[squid-users] How to enable caching for https websites on Squid

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Wed Dec 20 12:23:41 UTC 2017


>On 19/12/17 23:33, Sekar Duraisamy wrote:
>>Please let me know how to enable caching for https websites and can we
>>configure squid proxy to maintain anonymous as we can configure for
>>http?

On 21.12.17 01:10, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>To cache encryption protected content you must first remove the 
>encryption. That destroys the "anonymous" part completely.
>
>Also, when a service uses TLS properly it is not possible to decrypt 
>in a proxy.
>
>If you accept the above limitations, look into the SSL-Bump feature 
>of Squid for details on how to configure decrypting of HTTPS content.
>
>
>Once Squid is handling decrypted content the caching should "just 
>happen", same as with HTTP traffic going through the proxy.

and I think you should read the last paragraph as:

  "caching often will not happen, since most of web developers don't know hot
   so use and benefit of it thus they try to disable caching globally"
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