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Nick_68106
Nimbostratus
Feb 25, 2011SSL client cert auth between two Apache servers
Greetings all,
I have been bouncing around the idea of having one of my Apache servers authenticate against the other Apache server using Client SSL Certs. However I can not find a way to make A...
Nick_68106
Nimbostratus
Feb 25, 2011Thanks for the reply hoolio,
The reason for this is wanting to get away from username/password authentication between the two web servers and force a stronger authentication method. However you bring up a very valid point "this wouldn't validate the Apache server acting as a client". I over looked that when I started to realize this would be possible to accomplish in the load balancer.
Thank you for the quick response. I think you saved me from going down the wrong road. I am going to head back to mod_proxy land and see if I can get it to work there.
Cheers,
--Nick
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