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FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying
Andrew Ayer
I'm a software engineer who works on security, usability, networking, and cryptography. I'm the bootstrapped founder of SSLMate , which makes it easy to obtain and monitor SSL certificates, and DNS Helper , which helps your customers add DNS records so you don't have to.
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?