Best practice for SSL passthrough?

[Stewart Robinson]

Hi Lars,

A few people on the list have previously spoken about using stunnel or pound in front of Varnish to handle the SSL traffic.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/varnish/misc/18857

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/varnish/misc/14215?do=post_view_threaded

Stew
On 17 Jun 2011, at 13:28, Lars Jørgensen wrote:

> Hi,
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> We're building a varnish cache to put on a separate machine in front of a site that uses both http and https. Varnish is of course only supposed to cache http requests, but what is the best practice to pass https through to the backend? I'm thinking about putting a separate varnish instance up on port 443 that does a pipe on all requests.
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> Lars
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