Yeah, you'll want to allow connections only from the frontend webserver.
That's probably 127.0.0.1, but it would be different if you're doing a
frontend server with a pool of backends.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017, at 08:04 PM, Matthew Butterick wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 26, 2017, at 3:45 PM, Alexis King
>> <lexi.lam...@gmail.com> wrote:>> 
>> When an HTTPS request reaches Apache, it will use the certificate
>> that it knows about to perform SSL negotiation, then it will
>> forward the>> decrypted HTTP request to your Racket server over ordinary 
>> HTTP.
>> It will>> subsequently encrypt the response it receives, then send it
>> back to the>> client. This means your Racket server doesn’t need to worry 
>> about SSL> 
> OK thanks. That works. It just seems like cheating — laundering HTTP
> into HTTPS.> 
> What about the new HTTP port that the Racket web server has opened?
> Should that be secured somehow (e.g., firewall)?> 


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