Nginx does not support Forward SSL proxy connection

Weibin Yao yaoweibin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 15:12:59 UTC 2014


OK, Thanks for your comment. We will fix that and welcome any
suggestion. Nginx is almost a forward proxy, it's useful for some
proxy users.

Thank you.

2014-04-16 22:31 GMT+08:00 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 09:44:04PM +0800, Weibin Yao wrote:
>
>> Tengine are ready to add the support of forward proxy, you can have a
>> look at this pull request: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/pull/335
>
> Just a note: support for CONNECT method != forward proxy.  It
> doesn't make other parts of code to behave like they should in
> case of forward proxy.  E.g., it won't stop proxy module from handling
> X-Accel-* headers by default, and so on.
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 2014-04-16 17:41 GMT+08:00 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:51:04AM -0400, sai1511 wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm trying to setup Forward SSL Proxy through nginx. However I came across
>> >> this post,http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,15124,15256#msg-15256. Is this
>> >> still not supported or you just don't have this on your list ?
>> >
>> > No changes since then, nginx isn't a forward proxy, and there are
>> > no plans to turn it into a forward proxy.
>> >
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