Enable cache for SSL connection in Squid

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Wasim A. picture Wasim A. · Sep 10, 2013 · Viewed 28.1k times · Source

How we can enable squid to cache web content (let says from firefox) for SSL connection, i mean for https URLs?

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JaysonRaymond picture JaysonRaymond · Nov 22, 2013

Actually SQUID can be used to access HTTPS traffic - it is in essence a man-in-the-middle attack - and there are caveats:

See: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump

I have not tried cacheing this data yet, so can't say that it will work with absolute certainty. If/when I do, I'll update this post.

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