Nginx as a forward proxy

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:05:13AM +0530, shankar.borate at workapps.com wrote:

Hi there,

> I have requirement where from nginx, outbound request need to go to internet https proxy and then to some other service in AWS. Request flow is as follow
> 
> Browser --> WAF--> Nginx-->corporate https proxy --> AWS S3 (s3 streaming url).
> 
> My question is, is there a way nginx can proxy pass request to S3 via proxy server? If yes, how?

No.

Current stock nginx does not speak the http-via-proxy protocol as
a client.

I'm not aware of any third party modules that do that, either.

I suspect your choices are "use something other than nginx", or "write,
or encourage someone to write, the code that you want".

Good luck with it,

	f
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