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April 23, 2003 at 06:16 PM
pequeberto

Reverse proxy and client certificates

by pequeberto . Updated 23 years, 2 months ago

Hi all!

We are using an application, which is configured to be accessed using https with an Apache reverse proxy.

As far as I know, in an https with a reverse proxy connection, two
https connections are established, if the proxy is configured for bridging:
– https connection between client (browser) and proxy
– https connection between proxy and Web server/EP.

This is not a problem when not using client certificates, but, what
would happen when using them? Our application have to check the
client certificate with the CA, but.. will be able to get the client
certificate from the application (from the Web Server) using a
reverse proxy, I mean, will the client certificate arrive the Web
Server?

Has anyone worked with this scenario before? Many thanks in advance

Bert

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