We did a full episode of nodeup about this.

http://www.nodeup.com/twentyfour

-Mikeal

On Aug 10, 2012, at August 10, 20122:51 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:

> What are people generally using as best practice for SSL termination when 
> they need to use socket.io these days?
> 
> I'm usually a big fan of nginx, but hear it just doesn't work with socket.io, 
> and don't want to spend hours getting it there. We have multiple backends 
> that get serviced, and would like some kind of load balancing where possible.
> 
> We have enough IPs (I think) that we can host each backend on an individual 
> IP, so we don't need to do name based SSL.
> 
> Options I'm considering:
> 
> stud -> node
> 
> haproxy -> stud -> node
> 
> apache -> node (I know everyone hates Apache these days, but it is rock 
> solid, I'm just not sure if it supports what socket.io needs?)
> 
> stunnel -> node
> 
> 
> Alternatives?
> 
> What is best practice?
> 
> I don't want to let node do SSL. It's too slow at it (and yes I know this is 
> being worked on), so node-http-proxy is out.
> 
> Matt.
> 
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