[KLUG Members] passing https through a "firewall"

Rusty Yonkers therustycook at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 23 08:16:11 EDT 2004


--- Phillip Hofmeister <plhofmei at antiochcomputerconsulting.com>
wrote:
> I would be curious to see the details of your implementation. 
> Recording information
> about encrypted traffic (the transmission of the URL is
> encrypted)....should be interesting.
> 
I don't think that the URL would be encrypted if you have the proxy
settings in the browser.  It would automatically send the request off
to the proxy box.  The proxy box would do the DNS lookup.

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