[rt-users] Running RT over SSL on Apache

[Tomasz Wlodek]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Stephen Turner wrote:

> Quoting "Schultz, Eric" <ESchultz at corp.untd.com>:
>
>> I'm sure plenty of users here have their RT instance running on SSL.  My
>> question is, do you notice that the client experience is slower if the
>> entire site is running through encryption?  Has anyone only done
>> encryption for the login page, then left the rest of the access
>> unencrypted?  If I can get away without much of a performance hit, the
>> first choice is obviously simpler to implement from a systems
>> perspective.  But if there is a noticeable degradation (10% slower or
>> worse), I'd like to see some configuration where if you have to log in
>> first, you get sent to the login page, which is the only thing
>> encrypted.  Sort of like how you log in to Yahoo mail on the web.

We run on ssl and we see no problems. On the other hand we have on the 
order of hundreds of tickets/month which is low number, so it is hard to 
say what the effect really is.

Tom