So, after reading Wikipedia's article on reverse SSL/TLS Proxies, I totally get the advantages it offers. But doesn't it also pose a security risk, by basically being a "man in the middle"?
As a client, I cannot see whether the reverse proxies just encrypts the traffic between the client and itself and forwards all requests to the webserver over HTTP or if it does encrypt both directions.
And another question: How can an SSL-Proxy achieve to break up a requested SSL/TLS connection, without being remarked either by the user nor by the TLS webserver itself?