Version 1.2? This is woefully out of date. This document states:<p>> Since haproxy does not handle SSL<p>I can assure you that the latest HAProxy (2.6) does support SSL. I use HAProxy with a wildcard cert, and forward requests based on subdomain.<p>EDIT: I see the (2008) added to the submission title.
I'm not really sure why you'd post documentation from 2008. <a href="http://docs.haproxy.org/2.6/intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.haproxy.org/2.6/intro.html</a> is the equivalent documentation for the current release of HAProxy.