Apache or NGinx certificate renegotiation protocol? (e.g.: for reverse proxies)

It seems like a lot of servers are behind firewalls where Apache or NGinx play the role of reverse proxy. 
Often there are clients behind them that use them - e.g. Java servers. I am pretty sure Java servers have some kind of protocol to communicate with Apache.

What I would like to know, is if those protocols contain a method to renegotiate a TLS connection in view of asking for a client certificate. It seems that this would be something useful to have, if one wanted to allow the server to decide for which resources authentication was required.

Henry

Social Web Architect
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Received on Friday, 20 July 2012 19:23:05 UTC