Hi All,


I know that a similar topic has been discussed at least once on this
list, but my situation is a bit different. I have a site which redirects
all plain http requests to https with an apache redirect rule.
Useful content will only be served through https. Now I wanted to drop the
site behind a pound proxy, but I ran into the problem that pound will only
communicate with the backends through http and as a result a nice loop
occures.

Could someone suggest a nice solution (where "nice" means the "least
possible hacking") ?

Is it possible to put the redirection to the proxy level? That would also
do the job.


Thanks in advance,
Balint

I have the SSL certificate on my Pound server, so the pound server does
all the SSL encryption.  I also use the:
HTTPSHeaders 0 "Front-End-Https: on"

Directive, so that every request that hits the backend server will have
Front-End-Https: on in their headers.  You could then modify your
rewrite rule to redirect to a ssl url (that points to your POUND URL) if
this header isn't present.

Joe
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Hello,

Thanks for the advice, this solution works fine.



Balint


On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Joe Gooch wrote:
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