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This is nice to see. I wonder how it compares to HAProxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ which also works with SSL and Secure WebSockets (wss://).

The only thing better than haproxy and not by a long shot would be something like a bigip. My 2 pennies.

If all you're looking for is proxying, I'd agree. But nginx remains a good solution for caching + proxying.