Tag Archives: ssl

Introducing hitch – a scalable TLS terminating proxy.

Posted on 2015-05-15 by

The last couple of weeks we’ve been pretty busy making SSL/TLS support for Varnish Cache Plus 4. Now that the news is out, I can follow up with some notes here. The setup will be a TLS terminating proxy in … Continue reading →

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PROXY protocol in Varnish

Posted on 2015-01-19 by

Dag has been working implementing support for HAProxy’s PROXY protocol[1] in Varnish. This is a protocol adds a small header on each incoming TCP connection that describes who the real client is, added by (for example) an SSL terminating process. … Continue reading →

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Setting client.ip in Varnish VCL with libvmod-ipcast

Posted on 2013-07-22 by

I’ve written a new Varnish 3.0 VMOD called ipcast. It has a single function; ipcast.clientip(ipstring) which sets the internal Varnish variable client.ip to whatever IPv4/IPv6 address you give as the argument. You need this if you want to do ACL checks … Continue reading →

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