huge overhead in the handshaking and encryption to the backend.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Peter Portante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.a.portante@gmail.com">peter.a.portante@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Can somebody explain more about why you are "not supposed to" proxy to https backend?<br><br>Are you saying because it does not buy you anything since Nginx terminates the SSL protocol?<div>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Edho P Arief <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edhoprima@gmail.com" target="_blank">edhoprima@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, speedfirst <<a href="mailto:nginx-forum@nginx.us" target="_blank">nginx-forum@nginx.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have this requirement. I want to use nginx as the reverse proxy, which<br>
> listen on address A and forward the request to the backend server with<br>
> address B. However, if B is down, I want the request to be sent to<br>
> address C. The question is, address B is https and address C is http.<br>
> But for the argument of proxy_pass module, I can only write one prefix<br>
> (either "http" or "https").<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>you're not supposed to proxy to https backend. And I don't know how<br>
mixed environment like that would work anyway. If the client isn't<br>
using SSL then what's the point. But then if it's SSL then who<br>
supposed to give out the certificate.<br>
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