general question about cache servers

[ccoldfire]

hi to you all
am trying to setup a cache server along my 2011 rb ,i used an application called “handy cache” and it worked well except that it won’t cache https pages(facebook,youtube,etc..) unless i distribute a certification file to all clients devices and that’s impossible to do, in my case cause am hosting a hotspot for many mobiles.
so,my question is,can you guide me or at least, recommend an alternative cache server that would work,without the distribution thing?
thank you and best regards

[pe1chl]

This is not possible!

[ZeroByte]

Your only option is to assign Proxy server information to the clients, and so long as they have the default “automatically detect proxy settings” enabled, the browsers can use the proxy directly, and then you can do some proxying on https without needing certificates… but that’s pretty much the only way.

[ccoldfire]

@ZeroByte

Your only option is to assign Proxy server information to the clients, and so long as they have the default “automatically detect proxy settings” enabled, the browsers can use the proxy directly, and then you can do some proxying on https without needing certificates… but that’s pretty much the only way.

Thanks for replying..thats exactly what am looking for,if that’s not to much to ask ,can you give me any tutorial link to do so. Am very noob at these thing

[ZeroByte]

I’ve looked at various methods to accomplish it - they’re all a bit different.
I’d suggest setting up proxy and then going into your browser’s settings and setting the Mikrotik as a proxy (manually) and play around with that until you’re comfortable with the behavior. Then redirect 80 to the proxy (you can still do that transparently in case any user tries to override the auto proxy) and make sure that’s working.

Then do some googling for how to set up the auto proxy - I’ve seen various methods, and you’re just going to have to experiment until you get it working right, and once it is, that’s when you block port 443 and call it done.

[ccoldfire]

@ZeroByte

I’ve looked at various methods to accomplish it - they’re all a bit different.
I’d suggest setting up proxy and then going into your browser’s settings and setting the Mikrotik as a proxy (manually) and play around with that until you’re comfortable with the behavior. Then redirect 80 to the proxy (you can still do that transparently in case any user tries to override the auto proxy) and make sure that’s working.

Then do some googling for how to set up the auto proxy - I’ve seen various methods, and you’re just going to have to experiment until you get it working right, and once it is, that’s when you block port 443 and call it done.

Thank you sir,you gave me something to search for after i almost givenup.
onther noob question if you don’t mind,what is the differnet between “windows os” and “linux based os” like ubunto regarding the efficiency of the cache server?

am going to try squid cache server and it could be installed on both.and as you can see am a windows person and never worked with linux b4

[ZeroByte]

I’ve only limited experience with Squid - to my thinking, it would run best in Linux because that’s what it was originally developed for, but I’m sure the Windows version works well also.