> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Croonenberg
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 14:24
> To: openssl-users@openssl.org
> Subject: Re: [openssl-users] explicitly including other ciphers.
> 
> if the proxy is another host, I'd probably loose too much bandwith

As I described it, it wouldn't be on another host. From my previous message: 
"Configure Apache to only bind to loopback addresses (127/8 and/or ::1), so no 
one can bypass the proxy." If the proxy is connecting to Apache over the 
loopback interface, by definition it's running on the same system.

There might still be an unacceptable performance hit, of course. It wouldn't be 
due to an additional physical network leg (because there wouldn't be any), but 
you'd have some processing overhead, an extra set of copies for every packet, 
and some time spent in the proxy connecting to Apache - though depending on the 
requirements of the application and the capabilities of the proxy, that might 
be amortized over long-running connections.

Conversely, if your application can benefit from caching, you might gain some 
performance in actually serving content. It's impossible to guess without 
knowing more about the application and its behavior.

(And you mean "lose", not "loose".)

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Technology Specialist, Micro Focus


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