On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> I was really impressed with backhand at Theo's presentation at ApacheCon US
> in March. From what I rememeber though, it had serious limitations in the
> SSL space. Did Theo touch on that? The converstation I had with him about
> it back then was that it was going to be addressed in a future release...
Yes he did touch on that, but I wasn't really understanding what he was
saying. I think it was that the frontend server is SSL enabled only, and
so the backend servers don't get the SSL cert. But he said you could use a
module to put the cert in a header, or something like that, and it would
work fine so long as you programmed it all right :-)
But then I know very little about SSL, and maybe got the wrong idea.
> also IIRC, backhand was only terribly useful behind something like BigIP
> (which is what we use). Is there another implementation sheme now?
No that's right. Its the difference between high availability
(which BigIP *can* do) and load balancing (which backhand does).
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