I need to send data to some backend servers using HTTPS, but it seems
like
nginx doesn’t verify the certificate on the backend server. For
instance, if
I specify proxy_pass https://example.com and the certificate on example.com is invalid, nginx still completes the request without any
warning.
I’d prefer it if nginx checked whether the certificate could be verified
during the SSL handshake, and abort the request if the certificate isn’t
valid.
Is it possible to somehow enable certificate verification of the proxied
server’s certificate? And if it’s not possible to verify the
certificate,
what’s the point in using (or being able to use) an HTTPS backend then?
The reason I need SSL encryption is that traffic from my nginx server
will
be passed via public networks to the backend servers.