https and nginx as forward proxy

Tue Oct 20 18:33:43 MSD 2009

HI Igor:

Is there any schedule to support the feathure, forward proxy ?

thanks
NextHop

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:

>  On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:51:02PM +0800, 冉兵 wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was experimenting using nginx as forward proxy with the conf as
> attached.
> >
> > Regular http requests were passed fine. But any https were rejected right
> away. Firewall was disabled on the proxy server.
> >
> > Here was the trace with curl, where the proxy runs on 192.168.4.217:81
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------------
> > $ curl -v -x 192.168.4.217:81 https://jersey.dev.java.net/
> > * About to connect() to proxy 192.168.4.217 port 81 (#0)
> > *   Trying 192.168.4.217... connected
> > * Connected to 192.168.4.217 (192.168.4.217) port 81 (#0)
> > * Establish HTTP proxy tunnel to jersey.dev.java.net:443
> > > CONNECT jersey.dev.java.net:443 HTTP/1.0
> > > Host: jersey.dev.java.net:443
> > > User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8k
> zlib/1.2.3 libssh2/0.15-CVS
> > > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> > >
> > < <html>
> > < <head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head>
> > < <body bgcolor="white">
> > < <center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
> > < <hr><center>nginx/0.8.20</center>
> > < </body>
> > < </html>
> > * Proxy CONNECT aborted
> > * Closing connection #0
> > curl: (56) Proxy CONNECT aborted
> >
> -------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------------
>
> CONNECT differs from other HTTP methods.
>
> > Here is the conf file. The prebuilt Nginx 0.8.20 runs on Windows 2003.
> >
> -------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------------
> > worker_processes  1;
> >
> > events {
> >     worker_connections  1024;
> > }
> >
> >
> > http {
> >     include       mime.types;
> >     sendfile        on;
> >
> >     resolver 208.67.220.220;
> >
> >     server {
> >         listen       81;
> >         location / {
> >               proxy_pass $scheme://$http_host$request_uri;
> >         }
> >
> >     }
> >
> > }
> >
> -------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------------
> >
> > I suspect Nginx has not been designed to be used as a forward proxy. If
> nginx won't foot the bill, can anyone recommend a free solution please?
>
> Yes, nginx has not been disigned as a forward proxy. You should try squid
> which was a forward proxy from the very start.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>
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