On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Clay Fandre wrote: > > Will this also work for SSL traffic? > > Yes, this works with SSL traffic as well. Basically you are establishing > an SSL connection to the reverse proxy server, and the proxy server is > then making a new SSL connection to the actual web server. You can also have the proxy server make a cleartext connection to the internal web server - this is what many large web sites do to support SSL. Basically, connections are made to the load balancing/ssl accelerator box (which does crypto very fast), and then forwarded in the clear (over a private network, hopefully) to the backend cluster node. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list