Actually. Are you looking for reverse proxy or a user proxy. I'm confused
after reading your mail a few times.

Brgds, Espen
31. mai 2015 15:35 skrev "Espen Johansen" <[email protected]>:

> Exclude varnish its primarily made for frontend LB proxy.
>
> søn. 31. mai 2015, 15:32 skrev Adam Thompson <[email protected]>:
>
>> Oh, shoot, that's a good point - I probably do need SNI support for SSL.
>> I may be able to get a wildcard cert, but that will be an issue one way or
>> another.
>>
>> Varnish doesn't support SSL at all, although I could theoretically do it
>> with stunnel and a wildcard cert.
>> Squid does support SSL, but appears to require wildcard cert.
>> Squid3 *may* support SNI, can't tell.
>> Haproxy supports SNI; hopefully the pfSense package is new enough to
>> include that.
>> Apache supports SNI, supposedly.
>>
>> So I'm still left with a (overly, IMHO) large list.
>> I could also just port-forward TCP/{80,443} to a host behind the firewall
>> and do everything there, too.
>>
>> Argh, too many options, not enough clarity on which packages are
>> supported vs. which ones are semi-orphaned.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> On May 30, 2015 11:12:01 PM CDT, Travis Hansen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >If you're looking for pure proxy frontend I'd stick with haproxy or
>> >apache (I use haproxy).
>> >haproxy provides load balancing and can do other things besides
>> >strictly http(s) such a pure tcp and transparent proxy stuff.
>> >Apache provides some things like mod_rewrite (I assume the pfsense
>> >build comes with that) etc that aren't easily done with haproxy.
>> >I could be wrong but if you're looking for SSL offloading (I ensure all
>> >traffic goes over SSL) varnish and squid would be out of the
>> >picture. Travis Hansen
>> >[email protected]
>> >
>> >
>> >On Saturday, May 30, 2015 8:25 PM, Adam Thompson
>> ><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >I need to run a reverse proxy on a pfSense gateway - multiple websites,
>> >
>> >one public IP, the usual reason.
>> >However, I see there's a larger selection available than the last time
>> >I
>> >looked.
>> >
>> >It appears we now have:
>> >* Apache w/mod_security-dev v0.43 / 0.22
>> >* haproxy-1_5 v0.23
>> >* haproxy-devel v0.24
>> >* Proxy Server w/mod_security v0.1.7 / 0.22.999
>> >* squid
>> >* squid3
>> >* varnish3
>> >
>> >1. Have I missed any?
>> >2. Are "Apache w/mod_security-dev" and "Proxy Server w/mod_security"
>> >essentially the same thing?
>> >3. For relatively simple cases (straightforward hostname-to-internal-IP
>> >
>> >mapping), is there any compelling reason to use one over another on
>> >pfSense 2.2 today?  FWIW, this firewall is relatively underpowered
>> >(PowerEdge 1750, dual 2.4GHz P4-era Xeons).
>> >
>> >--
>> >-Adam Thompson
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