Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] HTTPS

[Costa T. <kt...@ho...>]

> What proxies are you trying to chain? and why?

I am testing RabbIT2 for providing my users with an Internet Accelerator.
I have about 10.000 modems to serve (not all of them will use
acceleration, but many will do - it will be a free service). There is a
large cluster of Network Appliances "NetCache C6XXX" (proxies) as the
core proxies for the network. I should use these for all outgoing
connections, since most probably the objects RabbIT2 will try to fetch
will already be there. It is not necessary to chain proxy SSL, but how
can I tell this to RabbIT2?

Up to now, I plan the whole setup as follows:

a. The back-end proxies will be the NetCaches since these are highly
optimized caches and they have a huge cache (1,5TB).

b. In front of these, there will be an array of RabbIT2 machines in
compression only mode (no cache).

c. In front of RabbIT2, there will be a single cluster of squid servers
configured to load balance the RabbIT2 servers, that will provide the
cache.

I plan to do it this way because:

1. I trust squid for its reliability. In this setup, if a RabbIT2 server
fails, squid is smart enough to re-route its requests to another RabbIT2
server.

2. Squid supports ICP for inter-squid communication about the objects in
the cache and the objects being fetched. This will ensure that I will be
compressing each object once.

3. I will be able to add as many RabbIT2 machines as needed without
worring about load balancing them. Squid will do it.

What do you think?

Costa