Hi, I've never used Apache Traffic Server but today thought about trying it.
Currently we run Apache HTTP Server and mod_md to handle TLS certificates mostly proxying requests to a Node.js backend application. I expect the Node.js stuff to be a bottleneck in the future and therefore would like to put a caching reverse proxy in front of Apache to lower the load on Node.js. My idea was to keep Apache directly handling port 80 so that mod_md should still work but will get almost no requests. ATS would terminate TLS on port 443, by configuring it to use the certificates provided by mod_md, and forward requests to a port like 8080 on Apache where all requests could be considered secure by the Node.js backend, or it could even go to port 80 as well if ATS adds a header to recognize it's secure? ATS could then also cache requests to lower the load on Node.js. I'm not really into web development and web stuff which is why I ask: Could this work? Is it something I should look into? Thanks for any information from those who know more than me, it's much appreciated. Regards, Simon
