We're using HAProxy -> stud -> node, and have been pretty happy with it. 
 Have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get client IP addresses, however. 
 There was a thread about this a couple weeks ago:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/k0jf4RIVT7E/discussion

  Jimb Esser
  Cloud Party, Inc

On Friday, August 10, 2012 2:51:11 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant 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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