Upstream SSL IIS Performance

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Thanks Francis,

Yes I suspected that it was somehow renegotiating the ssl handshake for each
request where as firefox/firebug was caching the handshake thus showing
quicker response times. 

Timing curl over https gave me an average of 80ms response time, timing curl
over http gave me an average of 10ms similar to what nginx was achieving
talking to the backend via http.

I'm happy to annouce though that your were bang on the money with the
keepalive directive. As soon as I added that into my upstream declaration
the reponse times dropped considerably and I'm now getting performance
similar to as if I was requesting the content directly from the upstream
server.

Thanks Francis your a legend :)

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,229909,229915#msg-229915