Theoretically you are able to offload SSL at haproxy, and pass raw, unencrypted
SPDY to the backend.
I doubt however that this has been done before, and nginx most certainly
doesn't accept unencrypted SPDY traffic, so yes, tcp mode will be the only
option for now.
Regards,
Lukas
> From: ke...@my.walr.us
> Subject: enabling SPDY
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:27:10 -0500
> To: haproxy@formilux.org
>
> I'd like to enable SPDY protocol using nginx. For this to work, do the
> frontend haproxy load balancers need to operate in tcp mode only? Or, can
> they use http mode to pass the SPDY requests to nginx?
