Reverse proxy to forward proxy to internet access

Saint Michael venefax at gmail.com
Sun May 28 04:55:14 UTC 2023


I would like to find a way to do what I do now at https://1eye.us but
better.
Many websites fail to work. For example https://bing.com/new



On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM David Siembab <siembabdavid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What does the project do for you and what would you like it do for you.
> Share ideas
>
> 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
>>>> --
>>>> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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