Reverse proxy to forward proxy to internet access

[David Siembab]

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On Sat, May 27, 2023, 12:21 AM Miten Mehta <indiamiten at gmail.com> wrote:

> I consider from your reply that niginx reverse proxy cannot provide
> internet access through a forward proxy like squid, websense or alike.
>
> I understand you mentioned that nginx cannot be used as forward proxy.
>
> There are many blogs on net claiming to use nginx as forward proxy and
> also using upstream forward proxy that is false? I don't see this in
> official documentation of nginx.
>
> Regards,
>
> Miten
>
> On Fri 26 May, 2023, 4:18 PM Miten Mehta, <indiamiten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for guidance.  If i enable direct internet access from reverse
>> proxy then can i just use proxy_pass $request_uri and have user format his
>> url as https://myreverseproxy.com/https://mypub/somepath.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Miten
>>
>> On Fri 26 May, 2023, 4:39 AM Francis Daly, <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 05:12:26PM +0530, Miten Mehta wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> > Can you guide to configuration to put in reverse proxy config file to
>>> use
>>> > forward internet proxy?
>>>
>>> nginx does not talk to a proxy server.
>>>
>>> If you need to talk to a proxy server, you need something other than
>>> "stock" nginx.
>>>
>>> Good luck with it,
>>>
>>>         f
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