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Re:HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL offloading and downstream encryp... by kennu on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:31AM (#4474680)
I wonder if it supports SNI for virtual SSL hosts?
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Re:HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL offloading and downstream encryp... by sp332 on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @11:13AM (#4474875)
It does http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/8134 Last I heard, it was buggy unless you used a specific build from April http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/04/13/enhanced-ssl-load-balan... but it may have improved since.
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Re:HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL offloading and downstream encryp... by erichocean on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @11:01AM (#4474833)
+1 If it did, that'd be really, really helpful.

The spec is pretty simple, I don't know why SSL implementations leave it off. :(

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Re:HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL offloading and downstream encryp... by daniellockard on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @06:41PM (#4476918)
Because Windows XP doesn't support SNI, so not many people use it. That's my theory.
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