[squid-users] Caching configuration for Squid on Windows

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:18 AM Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> >On 22/05/21 2:06 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >>I installed this on my Windows 10 but gave up when I could not make
> >>it to cache anything.
>
> On 26.05.21 12:57, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >Squid by default uses a memory based cache these days. Unless your
> >traffic is non-cacheable you should be seeing some things stored there
> >without any configuration.
>
> The main problem is that most of web content it HTTPS, which means it's
> hardly cacheable outside of web browsers.
>
> with https, proxy only sees stream of encrypted data:
> the "s" in https means "secure" so no third party sees your data.
>
> caching it requires decrypting of the connection, which means doing
> man-in-the-mittle attack.  It requires private certififacion authority
> installed on squid and in the browser, and for some domains using CAA
> browsers will still complain, or you'll have to fake DNS CAA records, which
> is harder with when using DNSSES, DoT or DoH.


In the light of the foregoing, what is the standard way of deploying Squid
these days?
Is the use of the ssl_bump becoming standard or no one needs any caching
within Squid these days so that Squid
has become a tool for filtering and access control only?


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