# Beyond proxy\_pass

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beyond-proxy-pass/213550>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 5, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beyond-proxy-pass/213550 "2011-11-05T00:05:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beyond-proxy-pass/213550/1 "2011-11-05T00:05:10Z")

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I have a situation where I have a very high write intensive site in  
nginx. This site aggregates GPS positions for transit from a high  
amount of devices.

The incoming traffic generates push notifications with the push\_module  
from [slack.net](http://slack.net) (Leo)

I need to get nginx to send the same packet it receives to a  
development server so that we can in essence `fork` the traffic so the  
second server can make it’s own set of push notifications to have live  
http activity but completely sandboxed from the production site.

I’ve got the two packt books and have been going through them and am  
using proxy\_pass already o serve JSON across domains in productions  
but can’t seem to get proxy\_pass to send to the development server  
successfully.

What’s the best way to fork or mirror https requests to two locations  
like this?

Brian Loomis