Ah the lightbulb is going on now. Thanks.

Maybe Apache would be best (people forget it has a very scalable event
based MPM available now).

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Stud just does SSL termination, absolutely no HTTP parsing, it has no idea
> if the stream underneath is HTTP or any number of other protocols that get
> used over SSL, so it has no idea how to add a header into an HTTP stream.
>  Other more complicated SSL terminators and load balancers do, but they
> seem to mostly choke on WebSockets which is outside of the usual format of
> HTTP.
>
> I guess that brings up a good point... stud probably won't do any useful
> logging for you - it could log IP addresses and connection times, but not
> individual GET/POSTs, etc, as it has no idea what those are.
>
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:35:56 AM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:01:38 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Good to know. I probably don't need it on the node side though. It's
>>>> mostly just for logs, which stud can write. Am I missing a need for the
>>>> real IP in node?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If the stud logs are enough, and you don't use the IP for application
>>> logic, then there's probably no need for it in node.  We need things like
>>> being able to ban abusive users by IP.  Also, 90% of the interesting
>>> actions a user does on our service happens over the WebSocket link, so we
>>> want it for logging as well.
>>>
>>
>> Yes for us it'll only be a minimal percentage, so not a huge deal.
>>
>> If stud can get the IP via the first few bytes, why can't it then just
>> add an X-Forwarded-For header when proxying to node?
>>
>> 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

Reply via email to