Some notes on Websocket SSL

[DeLonge]

Hi Gents,

Wanted to share this link with you, I developed a quick guide to using NGINX as a proxy AND SSL handler for webbit:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12102110/nginx-to-reverse-proxy-websockets-and-enable-ssl-wss 

I did find that SSL performance was better with NGINX instead of setting it up directly with webbit. Not sure why.

Anyways, I hope you find it useful for larger production environments.

Justin

[Joe Walnes]

Thanks Justin, that's really useful. I always prefer to run my web-apps behind a frontend web-server, and until I saw your post, I thought it wasn't possible to proxy websockets through nginx.

-Joe

[DeLonge]

Glad it was useful. I know that module is a recent development and in reality this was probably only possible just in the last two months. Nonetheless, the creator of that mod deserves a lot of kudos. 

Cheers