[squid-users] Secure basic authentication on Squid

[Mathieu Peltier]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Jason Haar <jason_haar at trimble.com> wrote:
> To reiterate Alex, "yes you can".
>
> Squid supports "proxy over TLS" as well as the old/default "proxy over TCP"
> - you use the https_port option
>
> ...but getting browsers to support it is challenging. The best way would be
> to create a WPAD file that tells browsers to use "HTTPS" instead of "PROXY".
> Then you can just use Proxy-Authentication using Basic and you'd be all set.

Hi,
Is this secure proxy well supported by other applications than
browsers in general (eg: wget, curl, yum, git, svn, php, ...)?
Thanks,
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Mathieu Peltier