Hello, I'm trying to get an outbound HTTPS request to be relayed by apache to a remote server in the following manner.
Servlet sitting on Backend Server (Tomcat) -> Proxy Server (Apache) -> Remote Server The communication between the proxy server and the remote server has to be HTTPS and the certificate that I have currently sits on the proxy server. I seem to have hit a dead end and I was wondering if any of you could help me. Ideally, I'd like to be sending an HTTP request to Apache who then encrypts the request for the remote server, but from what I have read that is not possible. The request has to be encrypted for the SSLProxyEngine to relay it. Another option that I was looking at was having a self-signed certificate for communication between the backend server and the proxy server and having the proxy server re-encrypt the request with another certificate to the remote server. Again, it seems like we can only specify 1 certificate with the SSLProxyEngine directives. Finally my last option was that the backend server encrypts the outbound request using the same certificate found on the Proxy Server, I use the SSLProxyEngine on the proxy server to forward that request to the remote server. Unfortunately, because of the Common Name in the certificate I doubt that the same certificate can sit on 2 different machines. Are my assumptions correct or is there something I haven't considered? Thanks, Mat ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List modssl-users@modssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
