Re: Re: Reverse proxy for TLS connections

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:43 PM Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 09:50 Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:44 AM Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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:
>> >
>> > 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.
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>
> I neglected to say those lines were inside a virtual host with SSL on. So how does that affect the same situation?

It means the frontend connection will use SSL.

The server decrypts incoming requests the same way regardless of how
it will later handle the request (static file, CGI, proxy).

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