[TYPO3] TYPO3 backend access via SSL proxy

Henning Pingel henningT3 at henningpingel.de
Wed Jan 17 22:34:30 CET 2007


Hi,

Are you using TYPO3 on shared web space of a web hoster who provides 
encrypted access to your website(s) via a SSL proxy? You might be 
interested to encrypt your TYPO3 backend communication through this SSL 
proxy. If you ever tried to access the TYPO3 backend via a SSL proxy you 
might have noticed that it's not working.

I spent some time on this issue and changed some coding in 
class.t3lib_div.php. Now I am able to use my TYPO3 backend via the SSL 
proxy quite normally. After I was nearly finished I posted on TYPO3-dev 
about it [1]  and learned  that some other nice people from the TYPO3 
community had already worked on this problem long ago and submitted 
patches for it at the bugtracker. But the patches haven't been approved 
yet and didn't make it into the TYPO3 core. The reason for this might be 
that some reverse proxy specific environmental variables involved are 
not documented properly on the web. Or maybe it's just that not 
everybody has a SSL proxy available to test the changes. Anyway: I 
thought it would be at the time to do something about it again.

Last week I started to write a tutorial [2] on this topic to provide my 
solution for testing on different environments. I would like to invite 
those of you who are interested in a secure backend access to have a 
look at my tutorial, to test the provided code there and to give me some 
feedback so that we can improve the solution together.

Thank you!
Henning

[1] http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-dev/2007-January/021614.html
[2] http://www.henningpingel.de/TYPO3-Backend-Via-SSL-Proxy.124.0.html


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