Ferron – a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

Re:Ferron – a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust by arnath on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:24AM (#43593776)

Random thing I’ve been wondering: is there a point in including TLS support in web servers any more? Isn’t it always better to run a reverse proxy and terminate HTTPs at the edge?

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Re:Ferron – a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust by dorianniemiec on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:45AM (#43593907)

The problem is that you will have more moving parts - a web server, and an additional reverse proxy (which can add overhead). Also, Ferron can also be configured as a reverse proxy.

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Re:Ferron – a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust by yencabulator on Saturday April 05, 2025 @01:27PM (#43595049)

For many uses, the reverse proxy is the cloud load balancer. That's probably what the grandparent is thinking too.

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Re:Ferron – a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust by shim__ on Monday April 07, 2025 @07:35AM (#43610127)

The web Server is the reverse proxy allowing the upstream to be plain http

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