Hardening your SSL installation
Snapt provides SSL termination/offloading in both the Accelerator and Balancer modules. These are extremely resilient and secure by default, but...
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Redirect port 80 to port 443 (HTTP to HTTPS)
There are certain circumstances in which you might want to transparently pass traffic from one port to another. Quite typically... -
Source IP with X-Forwarded-For
By default, the Load balanced web servers will not see the Clients IP as the actual Source IP from which the request originates, instead... -
Passing the scheme through SSL termination
Often times when you are terminating SSL connections at the Accelerator or the Balancer, you need to know whether the... -
Custom compile Nginx, Naxsi and PageSpeed
Snapt makes use of a heavily customized compilation of NGINX. While NGINX itself performs quite well out of the box, we implemented... -
Timeouts in Balancer and Accelerator
When Increasing the timeout of connections in the Balancer you must go to Balancer -> Configuration -> Default Settings. In the... -
How to disable SSLv3?
The Accelerator has SSLv3 blocked by force – it cannot be used on it. The Balancer allows SSLv3, but it... -
worker_connections are not enough
If you have a busy Accelerator you might see a set of errors like this in your log — 2014/01/25... -
Custom Headers in the Accelerator
You occasionally need to collect certain information at your application that cannot–and even shouldn’t–be passed through GET or POST methods. For... -
Getting your A+ SSL rating
The Qualys SSL Labs Test is well known as a benchmark to test the security and rigidity of your HTTPS website set-up....