On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08.37, atit jariwala wrote:

> Some sites are implementing SSL on non-standard SSL Port
> So squid's this behaviour is creating problem in  surfing such
> site. I am planning to allow CONNECT on non-standard SSL Port as
> well but before that i want to know the reasons for default DENY
> action.

To protect from abuse of the proxy to connect to other services like 
SMTP/IRC/whatever...

CONNECT opens a full duplex TCP transport tunnel via the proxy.

It is better if you just extend the ACL with the ports of troublesome 
sites.

Regards
Henrikm

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