Web Servers on Unix and Linux - (apache2) reverse-proxy and ssl-connections

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(apache2) reverse-proxy and ssl-connections

Martin Schmidt

2004-12-29, 7:49 am

Hello,

we plan to use a reverse-proxy for our backend server (tomcat).
The reverse-proxy is reachable for https requests only..
The mapping would be something like this:

ProxyPass /app1/ https://intranet:8443/app1/
ProxyPassReverse /app1/ https://intranet:8443/app1/
ProxyPass /app2/ https://intranet:8443/app2/
ProxyPassReverse /app2/ https://intranet:8443/app2/

Will the proxy create a new https/ssl-connection to the intranet
server for each incoming https-connection? I'm concerned about
the whole ssl-handshake overhead...

Greetings and thanks in advance,

Martin