Nginx as Proxy to Squid Forward Proxy

Server NGINX
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Hi,

This is kind of a strange request. What i want to do is get nginx to
proxy urls such as the following

http://www.mywebsite.com/proxy/www.yahoo.com

to a squid forward proxy, essentially grabbing the content of
www.yahoo.com from a squid cache.

By doing a GET http://www.yahoo.com request, the squid proxy will
return back that content.
I haven’t had any success with getting URL rewriting with the
proxy_pass and rewrite module to be able to send that type of GET
request to squid.
The best I can do is GET /http://www.yahoo.com, which squid calls an
invalid request, and therefore does not return the content.

Any suggestions how to do this without writing a new nginx module? I
currently am running my own http forward proxy that is more flexible,
but I would rather use squid for better scalability and caching.

Thanks in advance,

Curtis

2

What is your current config?

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:50 AM, André Cruz [email protected] wrote:

What is your current config?

André

I have tried a lot variations of a config and put some comments about
what they result in.

server {
server_name www.proxytest.to
listen 80;

# http://www.proxytest.to/relay_add_http/www.yahoo.com
# This one causes a redirect to the real http://www.yahoo.com
location /relay_add_http {
  rewrite      /relay_add_http/([^/]+)  http://$1  break;
  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
  proxy_redirect false;
  proxy_pass http://squid;
  break;
}

# http://www.proxytest.to/relay/http://www.yahoo.com
# This leads to squid receiving 'http:'  which is invalid
location /relay {
  rewrite      /relay/([^/]+)  $1  break;
  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
  proxy_redirect false;
  proxy_pass http://squid;
  break;
}

# http://www.proxytest.to/http://www.yahoo.com
# This one ends up sending 'http:/www.yahoo.com', which is closet

but nginx
# merges any // it sees into one / according to the documentation
location / {
rewrite /(.*) $1 break;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_redirect false;
proxy_pass http://squid;
break;
}
}

This is what happens if you just do it in at the root with no rewrite

http://www.proxytest.to/http://www.yahoo.com

This results in squid getting ‘/http://www.yahoo.com’, which is

invalid
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_redirect false;
proxy_pass http://squid;
break;
}
}

Any ideas.

Thanks,
Curtis