With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about how much data an end-user is expected to suck down that big and wide bro…
I couldn’t get SSL bumping in Squid on Alpine Linux about a year ago but I’m willing to give it another shot.
My home router is also a mini PC on Alpine Linux. I do transparent caching of plain HTTP (it’s minimal but it works) but with others using the router I do feel uneasy about SSL bumping, not to mention some apps (banks) are a lot more strict about it.
Yeah, you’ll have to have a bypass list for some sites.
Honestly, unless you’re actually on a very limited connection, you probably won’t see any actual value from it. Even if you do cache everything, each site hosts their own copy of jQuery or whatever the kids use these days, and your proxy isn’t going to cache that any better than the client already does.
I couldn’t get SSL bumping in Squid on Alpine Linux about a year ago but I’m willing to give it another shot.
My home router is also a mini PC on Alpine Linux. I do transparent caching of plain HTTP (it’s minimal but it works) but with others using the router I do feel uneasy about SSL bumping, not to mention some apps (banks) are a lot more strict about it.
Yeah, you’ll have to have a bypass list for some sites.
Honestly, unless you’re actually on a very limited connection, you probably won’t see any actual value from it. Even if you do cache everything, each site hosts their own copy of jQuery or whatever the kids use these days, and your proxy isn’t going to cache that any better than the client already does.