On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:21 AM, bing <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bingb@tcsaa.com">bingb@tcsaa.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">



  
    
  
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    On 2/28/2011 10:36 PM, Scott Gifford wrote:
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              What doesn&#39;t work is the untangle server shows no scanning
              activity when I access the web pages. I think the path
              webserver-&gt;untangle-&gt;webserver does not trigger the
              scanning in untangle because the traffic it sees is from
              an internal ip going to the same internal ip.<br>
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            <div>Interesting.  Can you put another Web server box
              outside of Untangle to decrypt the traffic, then pass it
              through as normal?  That could help with performance as
              well.  Or use a second network connection to pass the
              traffic back out to Untangle&#39;s external interface?</div>
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    I&#39;d try that if I had another ip address. Also, putting a box in
    front of the firewall sounds dangerous.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It&#39;s true there&#39;s some risk to this approach.  You would want to be very careful in locking the box down, so nothing is exposed apart from the service you are offering.  Fortunately Linux includes a quite powerful firewall tool, so it&#39;s pretty straightforward to do this.  Keep in mind that Untangle itself is a Linux server, so with careful configuration you should be able to make your system at least as secure as that server.</div>

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Also, do you find that stunnel is able to work reliably
              doing HTTPS in this way?  My recollection is that there is
              some difficulty with redirects generated by the Web
              server, but perhaps something has changed.</div>
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    My website is currently pretty simple. Maybe I&#39;ll start seeing
    problems when the site gets going for real. Hope not!<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The trick can be on redirects IIRC, so you might want to test these.  Using a dedicated SSL server in front of a Web server is not uncommon, if it doesn&#39;t work I bet a bit of Web searching could turn up a workable solution.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>------Scott.</div><div><br></div></div>