Can Apache Proxy pass/cache SSL HTTPS ?

Can Apache Proxy pass/cache SSL HTTPS ?

Post by Chris Shento » Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:00:00



Perhaps I just haven't had enough caffeine today so I'm not seeing the
obvious.

I've set up Apache with a caching proxy and it does fine when I tell a
browser to use it for HTTP traffic.  Can I use it to proxy (and cache)
SSL traffic?  The proxy wouldn't know what the document URL was so
couldn't even cache the returned encrypted blob in any useful manner;
can it at least pass the SSL traffic through?

(What I'm trying to do right now is test something that seems broken
 with MS-Proxy: NetScape/MSIE works OK but our SSL-oriented application
 fails. I'm trying to determine if the problem is with MS-Proxy or the
 application by setting up an Apache proxy instead of the MS software.)

Thanks.

 
 
 

Can Apache Proxy pass/cache SSL HTTPS ?

Post by Marc Slemk » Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:00:00



Quote:>Perhaps I just haven't had enough caffeine today so I'm not seeing the
>obvious.
>I've set up Apache with a caching proxy and it does fine when I tell a
>browser to use it for HTTP traffic.  Can I use it to proxy (and cache)
>SSL traffic?  The proxy wouldn't know what the document URL was so
>couldn't even cache the returned encrypted blob in any useful manner;
>can it at least pass the SSL traffic through?

Sure, as long as the SSL client uses the usual method of using the
CONNECT method to get a connection through the proxy to the
SSL server it is connecting to.

 
 
 

Can Apache Proxy pass/cache SSL HTTPS ?

Post by Paul Rub » Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:00:00




Quote:>Perhaps I just haven't had enough caffeine today so I'm not seeing the
>obvious.

>I've set up Apache with a caching proxy and it does fine when I tell a
>browser to use it for HTTP traffic.  Can I use it to proxy (and cache)
>SSL traffic?  

Yes, use ProxyPass.

Quote:>The proxy wouldn't know what the document URL was so
>couldn't even cache the returned encrypted blob in any useful manner;
>can it at least pass the SSL traffic through?

The proxy would run SSL at both ends.  The client would see the
proxy's certificate, not the faraway server's.  The proxy would
get to see the URL.
 
 
 

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I have setup an apache proxy, which seems to work fine. But, I found
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When I send traffic to the backend machine it will answer with a 1.1
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Any hints as to what I'm missing? Thanks.

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