reverse proxy through upstream proxy

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:03:42PM -0400, pba wrote:

Hi there,

> I'm trying to configure nginx as a reverse proxy where the upstream traffic
> has to go through another proxy (squid in this case) without success.

I believe that nginx as a client can speak http to a http server, and
http-over-ssl to a https server, but does not speak proxied-http to a
http proxy server.

> Any ideas how to solve this or if there are alternative solutions to what
> I'm trying to achieve ?

As I see it, you can:

(a) encourage someone to patch nginx for your use case; or

(b) configure your squid so that it responds to http, not just
proxied-http.

Option (b) is probably less work. Look for either "transparent" or
"reverse proxy" within the squid documentation, and see if it is
appropriate for your setup.

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