Re: [Pound Mailing List] SSL Read Error

On 18 July 2013 13:25, Kieran Reynolds <kieranr-5szfi31LUqYJvtFkdXX2HpJpZx93mCW/@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello..
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> I have the following configuration:
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> Internet -> Pound -> Varnish -> Apache(Drupal).
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> My intention is to us Varnish to cache, and loadbalance across a number of webheads for requests that cannot be cached.
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> The reason for putting Pound on the outside edge, is to be the SSL terminator.
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> The problem I have run into, using either Pound 2.5.1 or 2.6.2 (From stock Debian repositories) is that whist I can get the configuration to work, and importantly, speed up page access (cached pages) on port 80, and have tested this using apachebench, ab, the configuration of 443/SSL isn't going quite so well.
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> I have set this up as follows
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> Pound (listen externalip:443) -> HTTP -> Varnish (127.0.0.1:8880) -> HTTP -> Apache (127.0.0.20:80)
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> When I run ab against the external interface, with the FQDN of the site, I get SSL Read Error, Connection Closed, but I can't figure out why.
[...]

Have you tried running ab with "-v 2"? That will dump out additional
SSL info, which might help you track it down.

Also, make sure you are running a contemporary version of ab, support
for SSL in old versions was a little suspect.

Regards,
 Conor.

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