RE: SSL Reverse Proxy

From: Andrea Cogliati <AndreaC(at)gotech.it>
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 09:22:08 EDT

Thank you guys (Daniel, Lucas, Vic and David) for your answers. I really appreciate your suggestions.

Let's try to be more specific: we already use MS ISA to do the same job, but we are trying to move to Open Source at the perimeter (basically for security reason). That's why I particularly like the Apache approach, provided it'll safely do the job.

By now, the communications between ISA and the backend servers are https as well. We'd like to replicate the scenario with the new solution too. So, Daniel, you are impling that Apache is capable to reverse proxy https to http only and not https to https, aren't you?

What about Squid and Puond? I have had a quick look on them, but I'm quite sure they won't work here.

Thanks again. Ciao,

Andrea

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From: Daniel Williams [mailto:dwilliams@datainventory.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:56 PM
To: Andrea Cogliati
Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: SSL Reverse Proxy

Question, is server A and B configured for https or http?

If server A and B are configured to use http, then you could use Apache. Apache would terminate your https connections to mydomain.com, [...]

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Received on Wed Apr 30 12:57:35 2003