Nginx as Proxy to Squid Forward Proxy

[André Cruz]

What is your current config?

André

On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Curtis Spencer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is kind of a strange request.  What i want to do is get nginx to
> proxy urls such as the following
>
> http://www.mywebsite.com/proxy/www.yahoo.com
>
> to a squid forward proxy, essentially grabbing the content of
> www.yahoo.com from a squid cache.
>
> By doing a GET http://www.yahoo.com request, the squid proxy will
> return back that content.
> I haven't had any success with getting URL rewriting with the
> proxy_pass and rewrite module to be able to send that type of GET
> request to squid.
> The best I can do is GET /http://www.yahoo.com, which squid calls an
> invalid request, and therefore does not return the content.
>
> Any suggestions how to do this without writing a new nginx module?  I
> currently am running my own http forward proxy that is more flexible,
> but I would rather use squid for better scalability and caching.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Curtis
>
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