Lighttpd

Hi All,

I Have uploaded by code at https://github.com/aalap-shah/lighttpd-mod_fd_transfer
And I have a created a explanatory blog at : http://lighttpd-websocket-fd-transfer.blogspot.in/
Feel free to mail me If you need any help with using it.

Hi Aalap,

I am exploring this plugin module. I am facing some issues with it when using with https and posted same on below thread. Can you please help me how can we use this concept with https?

https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/3014

thanks
vivek panchal

@v2panchal what problem are you trying to solve? Have you benchmarked it?
The encryption library overhead is much larger than the overhead of lighttpd being in the middle (versus transferring the fd).
It is highly unlikely to be worthwhile to make any attempt whatsoever to transfer the TLS state after the TLS handshake occurs in lighttpd.

If you want lighttpd to pass all traffic for a given socket, you can use mod_sockproxy, but at that point, why don't you simply have your backend process listen on the IP and port on which you want to handle requests? Alternatively, take a look at mod_sockproxy and its use of handle_connection_accept hook. If you do not want to use mod_sockproxy, then you probably want to learn from mod_sockproxy and make use of handle_connection_accept in your mod_fd_transfer port. You want to intercept the connection before mod_openssl picks up the connection in mod_openssl handle_connection_accept hook.