On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Jeff Ambrosino <jbambros...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using Apache as a reverse proxy to a back-end (origin) web server, > handling SSL traffic. I have SSLSessionCache enabled, which lets the > Apache server cache the client's public key to prevent the need to > renegotiate subsequent connections. But my question is whether this > also helps when Apache itself is the client to the origin web server? > In other words, is Apache caching the back-end server's public key to > prevent the need to handshake SSL to the origin each and every > request?
You don't cache the servers key, you cache an opaque sesssion ID that you've previously established. This should not be reused for a long period of time. I don't know if mod_proxy_http + SSLProxyEngine re-uses session IDs, but it's somewhat moot because it uses long-lived connections in a pool anyway. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
