Support for both HTTP and HTTPS requests on port 443

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:50:10PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:42:54PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have HTTPS/SSL server configured like this:
> > 
> > server {
> >        listen                  1.2.3.4:443 ssl;
> >        server_name             ssl.dom.tld
> > 
> >        ssl                     on;
> >        keepalive_timeout       70;
> > 
> >        access_log              /var/log/nginx/ssl-access.log;
> >        error_log               /var/log/nginx/ssl-error.log;
> > 
> >        location / {
> > 
> >                proxy_pass      https://10.0.0.1;
> > 
> >                proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503;
> >                proxy_set_header Host $host;
> >                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
> >                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> >                proxy_redirect     off;
> >        }
> > }
> > 
> > Is it possible to forward also *http* (not https) requests made to port 443 
> > to the backend (10.0.0.1) port 443 ?
> > 
> > Yes I know, it doesn't make any sense basicly, but I have a broken
> > application that wants to receive both http and https requests on port 443.
> > 
> > Is that possible with nginx? 
> 
> I did not tested this, but you may try:
> 
>         error_page  497 = @no_https;
> 
>         location @no_https {
>                 proxy_pass      https://10.0.0.1;
>  
>                 proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503;
>                 proxy_set_header Host $host;
>                 proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>                 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>                 proxy_redirect     off;
>         }
> 
> 

Ok, thanks! I'll try it.

-- Pasi