[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/12/2021 2:39 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Write an OpenVMS app with modern security. Try it. Seriously. Go try it. 
> Try a simple secure app-to-app network connection. Write a client and 
> server using a TLSv1.3 connection with full client and server 
> certificate verification and with a certificate revocation check, with 
> encrypted storage data, and with a secure password and secure private 
> key store, and with compatibility with commercial certificate vendors, 
> and call me back. This is one of the most basic operations for an app 
> developer writing a distributed app in 2021. And it's fundamental for 
> that "maybe" app server that's been referenced here. Can OpenVMS be used 
> here? Sure. Can all of this stuff be implemented? Absolutely. Is the 
> source code involved here complex and bug-prone and poorly documented? 
> Yes. Are these tasks easier with higher-level frameworks available 
> elsewhere? Of course.

No argument that VMS is behind regarding tools and libraries.

But it is not obvious to me that the stated goal requires:
* TLS 1.3 and not just 1.2+
* client side certificate verification and not just server side certificate

Arne