varnish with ssl
Ken Brownfield
kb+varnish at slide.com
Thu Apr 8 02:01:05 CEST 2010
There is a case, it's just not a sound case given the drawbacks and lack of *necessity*, as described in that email. Again, IMHO.
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kb
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Michael Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Ken Brownfield <kb+varnish at slide.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd also add that by definition, SSL represents data that is secure between the server and the user. Caching that data (or having it even pass through a cache) is conceptually incompatible.
>>
>> Obviously, SSL pages often contain static content (images), which would be nice to serve from a cache.
>
> Well, which is it? Is there a use case for SSL support in a caching
> proxy, or isn't there? I don't follow your argument.
>
> --Michael
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