SSL Performance

[tom tom]

Any benchmark done this vs Seperate SSL hardware
accelarators,


Lot of peopple go for the second option


Thanks
--- "Marvin S. Addison" <serac at vt.edu> wrote:

> >From the folks I've talked to, many front Tomcat
> with Apache for
> superior SSL performance.  This is the common Apache
> + Tomcat/mod_jk
> solution that Stephen described.
> 
> We have an alternative that we are very happy with,
> that leverages the
> SSL performance of Apache with the simplicity of a
> Tomcat-only solution.
> As of (I believe) Tomcat 5.5.x, there is a "native"
> HTTP connector that
> is a JNI wrapper around the Apache Portable Runtime
> (APR), that
> underlies Apache.  The beauty of this approach is
> that you get near
> native code performance for Tomcat connection
> handling, including SSL
> encryption.  You simply install the APR native
> connector and configure
> Tomcat to use it via server.xml.  If you're
> interested in this approach,
> you can read more at
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/apr.html.
> 
> Regards,
> Marvin Addison
> -- 
> Applications Programming Analyst
> Collaborative Technologies Unit
> Virginia Tech
> 
> 
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