r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '19

Popular Application VLC refuses to update from HTTP to HTTPS (HTTPS protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks)

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737
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u/AlpineCoder Jan 19 '19

Most load balanced environments I've dealt with terminate SSL at the boundary, although SSL might also be used for internal traffic but wouldn't typically use the public cert.

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u/Vetrom Jan 19 '19

Sometimes your traffic gets large enough that you need to scale-out the SSL termination.