On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:44 AM Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 13:34 Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:16 Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Let me try to rephrase the situation and question:
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> If I use a reverse proxy as in the basic example in the docs, does that handle https traffic also? Or does the the "http://www.example.com" lines have to be written as "https://www.example.com"?
That argument affects whether the request sent from the proxy to the
backend uses HTTPS.
It's independent of the connection between the client and the proxy
server. If the client connection used HTTPS, its data decrypted prior
to any module (other than mod_ssl) seeing any of the data.