Re: [Sks-devel] Non-trivial HTTP server config

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 2012-06-26 20:49, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote:
> Dear Johan,
>
> Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
...
> Just for curiosity I entered URL http://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80
> in my browser as written on page
> http://sks-keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php.
> I get to page http://mud.stack.nl.
> That is quite interesting site but at first sight does not serve
> any keys related thing.
> E.g.  http://mud.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats says
>

http://sks-keyservers.net/status/info/keyserver.stack.nl , so that is
what is being used. This hostname is fetched by looking through the
gossip peer list of other servers and then set to the hostname reported
by sksconf in ?op=stats
>
> You must have quite tricky HTTP server settings if
> http://keyserver.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats even works well.
> on the same IP address. :-)

Not necessarily that tricky, seems like a simple matter of a virtual
host and a reverse proxy (I'm guessing apache) in front of SKS. In any
case, it works...

address@hidden ~ $ wget -S http://keyserver.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats
--2012-06-26 20:51:48--  http://keyserver.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats
Resolving keyserver.stack.nl... 2001:610:1108:5011::70, 131.155.141.70
Connecting to keyserver.stack.nl|2001:610:1108:5011::70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.0 200 OK
  Server: sks_www/1.1.3
  Content-length: 148624
  Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Length: 148624 (145K) [text/html]


> I wonder if your solution is public.


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