[squid-users] Newbie question, How to fully disable/disallow https?

Antony Stone Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it
Tue Jun 22 22:50:37 UTC 2021


On Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 00:44:44, Arctic5824 wrote:

> I want to run an open proxy and replace google adverts w/my adverts.

You might want to be aware that this is illegal in many countries, and a 
number of Internet Service Providers have been sued and/or fined for 
manipulating the content of websites as they pass through their systems.

Anyway, just for the sake of technical discussion, let me repeat my original 
questions:

On Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 21:41:22, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 June 2021 at 21:32:10, Arctic5824 wrote:
> > Hello, Recently I setup my first squid proxy,
> > 
> > I want it when users try to acces a website via https, they get
> > redirected to the http version
> 
> 1. What makes you believe that sites *have* an HTTP version?
> 
> 2. What do you think should happen when sites *do* have an HTTP version,
> and that consists solely of a 301 Permanent Redirect to the HTTPS version,
> which contains the content?
> 
> (In other words, the actual web server is never going to provide the
> content you want to see if you only speak HTTP to it.)
> 
> 
> Antony.

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