Recently I set out to configure a service of ours to run behind a reverse proxy with TLS termination.

With Phoenix being the great framework it is, I assumed this would be a breeze. But it turned out that reality had different plans for me.

In this post I’ll tell you a story on all the different bits of documentation I rummaged through, the things I learned from reading the source code of Plug.SSL, the solution I arrived at, and the proposal I submitted to plug.

https://dev.betterdoc.org/elixir/phoenix/plug/ssl/2020/09/25/how-we-split-plug-ssl-to-control-ssl-redirection.html