How much is the HTTPS overhead

[Alexander Vogt]

> So I was considering to entirely protect my application 
>so that the RoR
> doesn't have to know about ssl and redirection to 
>protected pages,
> however I'd like to know how much overhead is added.

good question but here is maybe not the right place for it as thats a very 
general topic and not nginx related.

id further recommend you to learn using google ;) 20 seconds of googling 
gives you a lot of information to that topic, for example here: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/548029/how-much-overhead-does-ssl-impose

greetings