On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> > * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643 -- Serve
> SSL/HTTPS
> > sites out of same domain names as HTTP access: https://en.wikipedia.org/
> >
> > This'll need more work as it has to deal with the offsite proxies,
> multiple
> > domains, etc. But it's been on the slate for a long time and we did some
> > live experiments in 2007 that looked positive; if done it'll make the SSL
> > views of the site friendlier to use, and smart session/cookie management
> > could keep people form having to manually bounce themselves between SSL
> and
> > non-SSL links.
> >
>
> This is the only reliable way of doing HTTPS, and will be the method I
> use to attack this problem. Basic SSL termination should work fairly
> well with this, but we will likely need to do some network trickery to
> make this work as we want. We don't want to run the SSL termination on
> the same hardware as our non-SSL proxies, as we'd have to optimize for
> two different workloads, so we are currently looking at doing this as
> a separate cluster.
>

+1


> I don't have a timeframe for completion, but I hope to work on this at
> some point soon.
>

Thanks for the update!

-- brion
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