Reverse proxy through upstream proxy

Server NGINX
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I’m trying to configure nginx as a reverse proxy where the upstream
traffic
has to go through another proxy (squid in this case) without success.
Since
nginx does not support (as far as I can tell) passing a proxy for
upstream
and because I need to reverse proxy only one domain (test.com) I’ve
tried
rewriting the URL and using proxy pass:

location / {
rewrite ^ http://test.com$request_uri;
proxy_set_header X-Custom SOMETOKEN;
proxy_pass http://my_squid:3128;
}

Unfortunately since the final URL generated by rewrite starts with http
nginx immediately returns a 302 without forwarding the request to the
proxy.

Any ideas how to solve this or if there are alternative solutions to
what
I’m trying to achieve ?

Thanks.

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:03:42PM -0400, pba wrote:

Hi there,

I’m trying to configure nginx as a reverse proxy where the upstream traffic
has to go through another proxy (squid in this case) without success.

I believe that nginx as a client can speak http to a http server, and
http-over-ssl to a https server, but does not speak proxied-http to a
http proxy server.

Any ideas how to solve this or if there are alternative solutions to what
I’m trying to achieve ?

As I see it, you can:

(a) encourage someone to patch nginx for your use case; or

(b) configure your squid so that it responds to http, not just
proxied-http.

Option (b) is probably less work. Look for either “transparent” or
“reverse proxy” within the squid documentation, and see if it is
appropriate for your setup.

f

Francis D. [email protected]