nginx as an open proxy

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:58:25AM +0000, Igor Clark wrote:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> On 15 Nov 2007, at 06:27, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:43:26AM +0000, Matthew Albright wrote:
> >
> >>Igor Sysoev <is at ...> writes:
> >>>On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:03:27PM +1000, Tony Lewis wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I would like to use nginx as an open proxy, using regular  
> >>>>expressions to
> >>>>get to any URL.
> >>>>[...]
> >>>
> >>>Right now nginx does not allow to set any host in proxy_pass.
> >>>Currently I'm changing this - it requires non-blocking resolving and
> >>>proxy_pass changes.
> >>
> >>Igor, do you have any idea when this feature will be available?
> >
> >It is almost implemented and runs on one of our test servers, but now
> >the DNS cache is not cleaned at all, so there are memory leaks.
> >I'm going to fix it in nearest future and release it.
> 
> Will this be in the 0.5.x branch or only 0.6.x?

It will be in 0.6.x, and after some time it will be merged to 0.5.x.


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