[users@httpd] Re: reverse proxy choice to origin servers: https-https or https-http

2014-02-10 Thread Jakub Moscicki
Is it true that if proxy is setup https-http then it only has to decrypt/encrypt the headers and the body is encrypted/decrypted on the backend? What ? Eh, no. If you configure your frontend with https and your backends with http, then you just told apache to NOT use SSL between mod_proxy and

[users@httpd] reverse proxy: connect to origin servers via http or https?

2014-02-06 Thread Jakub Moscicki
Hello, I have a reverse proxy (apache 2.2) with mod_proxy_balancer with https visible to the outside world. The question is: from the proxy performance/scalability point of view is it better to configure backends (origin servers) with http or with https? Is it true that if proxy is setup