Nice :) Apache 2 protocol modules should allow you to do this without having to patch the server (using filters), as in Apache 2 HTTP is just another protocol module that can be inserted or removed. In Apache 2 mod_ssl itself is implemented as a filter
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:22:55PM +0200, Pablo Royo Moreno wrote: > > > For some years, we have been in my company running a secure non-http file transfer > system. Nowadays, with more and more system administrators allowing secure incoming > connections only trough 443 port , that system doesn´t work, because it does not > speak HTTP and 443 port is usually already used by web servers, so we cant use it > for our systems. > So there is no solution, if system admin does not open another port, except to use > 443 port. > > Now we have made a mod_ssl patch to allow non-HTTP secure incoming connections to be > deciphered and forwarded to a selected server, configured in conf file, while also > serving HTTP in the usual way. I´m not sure if this can be done in any other way > with Apache modules, but it works and its all i need. > > The patch is in > > http://spipe.sourceforge.net > > If you see documentation, you will see there are some other interesting (I think) > use cases to create secure "pipes" from one web server to another. > > Hope it will be of help to someone in the same situation. If not, just consider it a > more or less summer academic experiment. > > Thank you > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
