[squid-users] Trying to set up SSL cache - solved!

[Dave Blanchard]

Hi Eliezer, this is on a custom Linux distro. I was using Traffic Server after the failed initial foray into Squid-land, but it also wasn't caching SSL, and it's even more poorly documented. Also, annoyingly, TS was updating its on-disk stat file every five seconds, slowly but steadily wearing out my SSD drive. I tried to patch the source code to fix the problem, and found the code is too cruddy to deal with. It's the sort of code base where the obvious fix doesn't work because the code is doing the same thing in like 5 different random places, with half the relevant code being dead and unused. Found some really dumb shit, like a command line option to enable debugging, that doesn't work--the code doesn't even use the variable it sets! So in disgust I came back to Squid, and am glad to finally have this thing working right. My network connection is only 128kbit, but now quite usable with the caching proxy and other optimizations. 

Dave


On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:38:43 +0200
"Eliezer Croitoru" <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Dave,
> 
> Lots of tutorials and documentation are out there but ... or out of sync
> or..
> not good from 0.
> 
> What OS are you running squid ontop?
> 
> Eliezer
> 
> * We are trying to give good examples.
> 
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> Eliezer Croitoru
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> On Behalf Of
> Dave Blanchard
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 05:09
> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Trying to set up SSL cache - solved!
> 
> OK--I solved the problem by removing the "ssl_bump bump all" line. Works
> fine now.
> 
> Damn, this proxy is a TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS!! to configure. It seems like
> 90% of the tutorials out there are junk, largely because things keep
> changing from version to version, obsoleting them. That having been said, it
> does have a lot of features and when it's eventually configured right it
> does work, so there's that. It's a lot like CUPS, in that way, or sendmail.
> 
> Please add more concrete examples to the Wiki reference pages! Thank you.
> 
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