Re: [users@httpd] is it possible ? (ssl-tunneling)

[Sander Temme]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 2:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

is it possible to have the connection between the client and the reverse proxy

encrypted with ssl and authorization basic ? smth like ssh-tunneling ?

example :


                                 reversed
                                 proxy

client <---- SSL ---- > Apache <-------------> origin server

S.

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Absolutely. Set the Apache up to handle SSL, and protect the proxied location(s) with whatever authentication scheme you like. Then set up the reverse proxy in the usual way.

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