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It's a scalability problem. If you have many web servers behind a reverse proxy that takes care of TLS it's often pointless to waste processing power on encryp
by Canada 11y ago
It's a scalability problem.
If you have many web servers behind a reverse proxy that takes care of TLS it's often pointless to waste processing power on encryption in between.
- anthony_franco 11y agoYep. And on top of that a reverse proxy is unable to inspect the requests to route them smartly (based on path, cookies, etc.).
- Canada 11y agoWell, the reverse proxy would have made the backend request itself, so it's free to inspect or modify anything.