You could use pound as an HTTPS front-end for varnish (or anything else too).
http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ It works quite well. I believe that Slashdot uses it as thier HTTP front-end. On 12/4/07, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info but I did just wondered if varnish pass it to the backend > or if it drops the request. I did some tests and it seems like it passes the > request to the backend. > > BTW, what program may I use to have https2http? Isn't https encrypted? > > / Erik > > Original Message ----------------------- > Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know that Varnish doesn't handle https. But what if the request is > > in https? Would varnish pass it to the backend or just drop it? > > It would not be a normal HTTP request, so Varnish would not try to > handle it. You could place a https to http gateway between your users > and varnish, so varnish can accelerate the http traffic. The pipeline > would look like this: > > Duh Internet - https2http gw - varnish - http server > > -- > Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, Linpro > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
