N00b - logging stream request / response

Joel Parker joel.parker.gm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 19:11:49 UTC 2017


I am still having issues with the config, can you take a look at my short
config and see where my confusion lies ? Changed the stream block to http
and think I did the rest correct but still complains about log_format and
not sure if my proxy_pass or any of the rest of it is bad.

Joel

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Robert Paprocki <
rpaprocki at fearnothingproductions.net> wrote:

> Just set up a server {} block that accepts TLS connections. This is
> exactly what proxy_pass is for :) You can log whatever HTTP data you need
> via Nginx (just as your log_format and content_by_lua block does), and then
> proxy_pass that traffic to your upstream as normal. Stream blocks are for
> arbitrary TCP/UDP streams; they have no knowledge of layer 7 HTTP data.
>
> BTW it's very bad practice to buffer the whole request body like that ;)
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Joel Parker <joel.parker.gm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What I am trying to do is create an open proxy that listens to TLS from
>> many servers and de-crypts the traffic with the appropriate keys, log the
>> de-crytped request / response then re-encrypt with different certs and send
>> to an upstream server. My thought was theat a stream block would help me
>> accomplish this.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robert Paprocki <
>> rpaprocki at fearnothingproductions.net> wrote:
>>
>>> No. stream {} and http {} blocks are mutually exclusive.
>>>
>>> What exactly are you trying to accomplish with stream?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Joel Parker <joel.parker.gm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> so can I have a hierarchy like this ?
>>>>
>>>> http {
>>>>       // log format
>>>>     stream {
>>>>           server {
>>>>              // access log
>>>>          }
>>>>     }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Robert Paprocki <
>>>> rpaprocki at fearnothingproductions.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What you're doing doesn't quite make sense. You're trying to log HTTP
>>>>> data inside a stream block. That doesn't work. There's no such concept of
>>>>> $status, $http_referer, etc, inside a stream {} block.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a read of the log_format docs: http://nginx.org/en/docs
>>>>> /http/ngx_http_log_module.html#log_format
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Syntax: *log_format* *name* [escape=default|json] *string* ...;
>>>>> Default:
>>>>>
>>>>> log_format combined "...";
>>>>>
>>>>> Context: http
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Joel Parker <
>>>>> joel.parker.gm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to log all request / response in a stream with a lua
>>>>>> script I found in git hub and am having issues figuring out where to put
>>>>>> the log_format directive. Here is what I currently have :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> stream {
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     log_format bodylog '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
>>>>>>       '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
>>>>>>       '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" $request_time '
>>>>>>       '<"$request_body" >"$resp_body"';
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      lua_need_request_body on;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      set $resp_body "";
>>>>>>      body_filter_by_lua '
>>>>>>         local resp_body = ngx.arg[1]
>>>>>>         ngx.ctx.buffered = (ngx.ctx.buffered or "") .. resp_body
>>>>>>         if ngx.arg[2] then
>>>>>>            ngx.var.resp_body = ngx.ctx.buffered
>>>>>>         end
>>>>>>        ';
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ......
>>>>>>
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
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