pass https requests to backend servers

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi Sjaak,

On Don 15.07.2010 17:11, Sjaak Pieterse wrote:
>Hey Aleks,
>it's to bad that it is not possible.
>
>but when the traffic between the LB en backend is also encrypted is'nt
>it a double burden for the LB server?

Yes.

>2010/7/15 Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at none.at>
>
>> Dear Sjaak,
>>
>>
>> On Don 15.07.2010 16:07, Sjaak Pieterse wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> here at our company we are setting up an nginx loadbalancer before a
>>> couple of webservers(2 tomcat/ 2 iis).
>>>
>>> The problem that we walk in to is that we want to do the ssl handling
>>> on the backend servers.
>>> we know how to do it on the nginx server but is it possible for nginx
>>> to pass trough all the ssl requests to the backend without handling
>>> itself?
>>>
>>
>> Afaik no.
>>
>> You will need some tcp loadbalancer (=haproxy) for this.
>>
>> You can talk with the backend https if you want to encrypt the
>> communication between frontend and backend.
>>
>> proxy_pass https://...
>>
>> Hth
>>
>> Aleks
>>
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