Benchmarking SSL performance
Introduction The story Recently, there has been some attacks against website which aimed to steal user identity. In order to protect their users, major website owners had to find a solution....
View ArticleScaling out SSL
Synopsis We’ve seen recently how we could scale up SSL performance. But what about scaling out SSL performance? Well, thanks to Aloha and HAProxy, it’s easy to manage smartly a farm of SSL accelerator...
View ArticlePreserve source IP address despite reverse proxies
What is a Reverse-Proxy? A Reverse-proxy is a server which get connected on upstream servers on behalf of users. Basically, it usually maintain two TCP connections: one with the client and one with the...
View ArticleHOWTO SSL native in HAProxy
IMPORTANT NOTE: this article has been outdated since HAProxy-1.5-dev12 has been released (10th of September). For more information about SSL inside HAProxy. please read: How to get SSL with HAProxy...
View ArticleHow to get SSL with HAProxy getting rid of stunnel, stud, nginx or pound
Update: HAProxy can now handle SSL client certificate: SSL Client certificate management at application level History HAProxy is well know for its performance as a reverse-proxy and load-balancer and...
View ArticleSSL Client certificate information in HTTP headers and logs
HAProxy and SSL HAProxy has many nice features when speaking about SSL, despite SSL has been introduced in it lately. One of those features is the client side certificate management, which has already...
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