[squid-users] websocket with sslbump

[Alex Rousskov]

On 3/8/21 10:10 AM, Niels Hofmans wrote:

> During testing sslbump + icap I noticed that websockets (ws + was) are
> not supported by squid. (Even if using on_unsupported_protocol)
> Are there any plans for supporting this with sslbump?

Your question can be misinterpreted in many different ways. I will
answer the following related question instead:

Q: Are there any plans for Squid to send tunneled traffic through
adaptation services?

The ICAP and eCAP protocols cannot support opaque/messageless traffic
natively. Squid can be enhanced to wrap tunneled traffic into something
resembling HTTP messages so that it can be analyzed using adaptation
services (e.g., Squid applies similar wrapping to FTP traffic already).

I recall occasional requests for such a feature. I am not aware of
anybody working on that right now.

https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#How_to_add_a_new_Squid_feature.2C_enhance.2C_of_fix_something.3F


HTH,

Alex.
P.S. Latest Squids support forwarding websocket tunnels that use HTTP
Upgrade mechanism (see http_upgrade_request_protocols in v5
squid.conf.documented).