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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Are you trying to do something like this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> https://external_site/;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://external_site/">https://external_site/</a> traverses a proxy then the answer is “no” – nginx can’t deal with proxy situations where it has to issue HTTP CONNECT. I don’t know much about squid but I expect you’ll have the same problem. You’ll
see that requests will just …fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I got around it by creating a little node.js app to fetch the external resource from external_site and pointed nginx at the node app. Feels like a bit of a
hack but it works well enough. Incidentally I found pm2 to be a really nice container to turn 50 lines of js into a decent service that runs as a non-privileged user, starts on boot, restarts automatically on exception, logs, etc. etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nginx [mailto:nginx-bounces@nginx.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nicolas Legroux<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 06, 2017 4:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nginx@nginx.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IE] Can Nginx used as a reverse proxy send HTTP(s) requests through a forward proxy ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm wondering if it's possible to do what's described in the mail subject ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've had a look through Internet and docs but haven't been able to figure it out. The question is similar to the one that's asked here : <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45900356/how-to-configure-nginx-as-reverse-proxy-for-the-site-which-is-behind-squid-prox">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45900356/how-to-configure-nginx-as-reverse-proxy-for-the-site-which-is-behind-squid-prox</a>,
but that thread doesn't provide an answer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've been able to do this with Apache and its ProxyRemote directive, but I can't figure out if this is doable with Nginx.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicolas<br clear="all">
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