We're using Amazon's ELB in SSL-TCP mode. We then forward this to a cluster of stateless node http proxies (using node-http-proxy) that do the host and path based routing to the right app servers. This works great except we lose the remote client's IP address.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
