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Posted by Lassi Hippeläinen on August 12, 2005, 4:38 pm
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fritz-bayer@web.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about forwarding HTTPS connections. I was wondering
> whether or not SSL Proxies exist (Apache?) that allow forwarding HTTPS
> connections to a different server?
>
> The problem is that our webserver (on which our shop system resides)
> runs on a ip address different to which our hostname resolves.
>
> Here an example which describes our setup and makes the above said
> clearer:
>
> www.our-shop.de resolves to 212.45.27.78
> Our webserver runs on 43.67.23.88
>
> We run a transparent http proxy on 212.45.27.78, which forwards all
> HTTP requests to 43.67.23.88. That works perfectly fine.
>
> However, of course HTTPS connections fail. Is there any solution, which
> allows us to also forward HTTPS connections to 43.67.23.88?
>
> Fritz
Normal https concentrators terminate the SSL session and forward its
contents to the back-end server in the clear. The link between the proxy
and the server is secured by other means.
-- Lassi
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