On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
On 16/02/11 05:50, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Ok, so
offering HTTPS for everything isn't essential. What harm does
it do, though?
it imposes on your server cluster some requirements -- and some load --
with which it would otherwise not have to deal.
I think most load balancer appliances around also handle SSL off-loading.
Not particularly relevant to the Wikimedia Foundation (which is using
Squid and will probably switch to another open source software web
load balancer in the future). But relevant for many/most commercial
organizations running large websites.
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-george william herbert
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