On 4/30/07, wi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all
I have an Apache instance that is functioning as a reverse proxy for our app
server. For standard http, this works fine. However, we'd like to send SSL
traffic through the proxy to the back end server. I don't want to decrypt
the traffic at the Apache instance, just re-route it to the back end?
I can't seem to find a way to do this, without doing the decryption. Is
mod_proxy up for this?
I don't think you can reverse-proxy ssl. Since everything is
encrypted, there is nothing for a reverse-proxy to handle -- just a
raw stream of bytes. For a forward proxy, this is handled using the
CONNECT method; but obviously the client needs to know about the proxy
to use that.
Luckily there is an easy alternative. Just use "port forwarding" at
the OS or firewall-level. Since there is no processing that can be
done at the apache-level (due to the encryption) you don't lose
anything by doing simple port-forwarding.
Joshua.
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