Varnish and HTTPS
Damien Wetzel
dwetzel at nerim.net
Tue Dec 4 13:59:36 CET 2007
Hello all,
is https handling planned somewhere in the roadmap ?
thanks,
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen writes:
> Erik <duja at torlen.net> writes:
>
> > I know that Varnish doesn't handle https. But what if the request is
> > in https? Would varnish pass it to the backend or just drop it?
>
> It would not be a normal HTTP request, so Varnish would not try to
> handle it. You could place a https to http gateway between your users
> and varnish, so varnish can accelerate the http traffic. The pipeline
> would look like this:
>
> Duh Internet - https2http gw - varnish - http server
>
> --
> Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, Linpro
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