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

[Amos Jeffries]

On 25/02/22 05:41, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 2/24/22 9:08 AM, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> "more examples" is hardly the answer.
> 
> I believe that "more examples" can be additional data that someone can 
> derive information ~> knowledge from.
> 
> Or said another way, it's a step in the proper direction.
> 

At this point I should remind that it is a *wiki* and largely written by 
all of us in the community.

The ConfigExamples section a collection of configs that people here in 
the community are (or were) actively using and found useful to share.
We (the main devs) have made a point of trying to update the contents to 
prune mistakes and mention when there are Squid version-specific 
differences. That is all.

That said, Francesco is working on converting the wiki content to 
another format so right now is not good for edits.


> I think one of the most important things to have with examples is meta 
> information about the configuration (both server and client side) that 
> it is being used and the version.
> 
> E.g. Clients are configured to talk directly to Squid (vX.Y) proxy 
> server on port 80 / 443 wherein SSL "bumping" a la. monkey in the middle 
> for caching purposes on a low bandwidth / metered connection.
> 

Sounds like you are talking about 
<https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/HTTPS>. From that page it is a 
matter of selecting which situation is the use-case and diving into the 
rabbit hole of links.


> /Just/ having configuration examples doesn't do much in and of itself 
> without knowing the context the examples are from.  If anything /just/ 
> examples is worse in that people have no context and are left with 
> trying to identify the version, what was being and intended to be done, 
> and then translating that to the version & configuration they are 
> working with.  This is something that's non-trivial for seasoned (Squid) 
> administrators and can be near impossible to new (Squid) administrators.
> 

Nod.

HTH
Amos