[stunnel-users] Using stunnel in a box having http client and http server.

[Joe Lau]

So, my understanding is that I will need one stunnel for each remote web server that my http client is going to connnect to.
For example if my http client want to connect to 3 remote web servers.  I will need to setup the folllowing stunnels:

Remote https Web Server #1 <------------- Stunnel #1 <---------- http client (http://localhost:81)
                                          (port 81)
Remote https Web Server #1 <------------- Stunnel #2 <---------- http client (http://localhost:82)
                                          (port 82)
Remote https Web Server #1 <------------- Stunnel #3 <---------- http client (http://localhost:83)
                                          (port 83)


But I will need only one stunnel for my http server as follow:


Remote https client #1 ------------+-----> Stunnel --------------- http server
                                   |       (port 443)              (port 80)
Remote https client #2 ------------+
                                   |
.....                              |
                                   |
Remote https client #N-------------+

Is the following config file correct for my http server stunnel?

client=no
accept=443
connect=localhost:80

Thank you!
-Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Nanteuil [mailto:christophe.nanteuil at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 3:19 AM
To: Joe Lau
Cc: stunnel-users at mirt.net
Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Using stunnel in a box having http client
and http server.


2009/3/20 Joe Lau <Jlau at extremenetworks.com>:
>
> Hello,
Hello,

> I am new to this list.
>
> I am planning to use stunnel on my box which has a http client and http server running on it.
> I will need two stunnel instances, one for the http client and one for the http server respectively.
It seems good.

>
> For my http client, my stunnel config file looks like this:
>
> client=yes
> accept=80
> connect=remote_web_server:443
>
> For my http server,  my stunnel config file looks like this:
>
> client=no
> accept=443
>
> The problem I am facing is now I have two programs (i.e. 1) stunnel for http client and 2) http server) listening to the same port 80.
> How do I resolve this conflict?

Who is going to connect to your http "client"  ? if it is your local
browser (which seems the goal of the configuration), then you can
configure the client with  "accept=81" and then type in your browser's
address bar  "https://localhost:/81"

--
Christophe Nanteuil

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