Reverse-secure proxy for Linux / Apache?

the gaijin writes "I'm looking for an alternative to Netscape Proxy Server, ideally using Linux and an Apache SSL variant. Our architecture follows the "reverse secure proxy model": A proxy server (Solaris + Netscape, 2 machines in round robin) handles HTTPS requests from a browser client. The proxy decodes the request and passes it as an HTTP request to one of the many application servers. The application server returns an HTTP response to the proxy, which then encodes the response and returns HTTPS to the browser client. (Application servers are actually grouped into farms defined by a Radware loadbalancing appliance; the proxy talks to the farms-- but the proxy is unaware of this). Has anyone implemented a model like this using the Apache proxying facilities, using one of the SSL variants? Is it possible? " jimjag writes: There's an article in Web Techniques that shows how to use mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to implement one layer of the above: the reverse proxying part.