Hello all, I'm looking into using Pound as a reverse proxy for my
SSL-enabled webservers, and I have a couple questions for you:

 

I know Pound can function very well as a reverse proxy in front of
several back-end webservers.  Pound can also manage the encryption
certificates itself.  What if I want to manage the certificates on the
webservers themselves instead?  We already have a group of webservers
running HTTPS and the webserver team handles certificate management on
their own servers, so I merely want to pass the SSL requests intact,
without modification, to the servers inside, who will handle all
encryption/decryption themselves.  Is this possible?

 

A diagram would be:  [client] -> [ https://poundserver:443
<https://poundserver/>  ]  -> [ https://internalserver:443
<https://internalserver/>  ]

 

The second question is about virtual hosting.  The pound documentation
indicates that you can't virtual host SSL websites.  If I use IP based
virtual hosts and have a single IP address for each internal server, is
it possible to virtual host multiple SSL websites on a single Pound
server?  I assume this would eliminate the problem of having to decrypt
the HTTP GET request and parse the URL.  You could simply redirect all
traffic to a particular IP address to it's corresponding internal
server.

 

Thanks in advance for your answers to these questions. 

 

Regards,

 

Luke Youngblood

 

 



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