proxy_pass via HTTP proxy

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:58:35PM -0400, cavedon wrote:

Hi there,

> However, in order to reach S, I need to go though an HTTP server P. This
> means nginx would need to connect to P, issue a CONNECT request, and then
> tunnel the HTTPS request to S.
> Is this supported?

No.

> How to enable it?

Start coding :-)

Right now, nginx proxy_pass speaks http to a http server, or http-over-ssl
to a https server. It doesn't speak proxied-http to a http proxy
server. (Including the CONNECT method of proxied-http.)

So if you want that, you'll need to look outside of current-nginx.

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