Reverse proxy.  Need to multiplex multiple publicly-accessible, secure, 
websites running on private IPs from a single public IP.
It *is* hard to write that both succinctly and unambiguously!
-Adam

On May 31, 2015 8:54:14 AM CDT, Espen Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>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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