Device or program that stands between two or more interconnected programs/devices
Questions tagged [proxy]
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nginx change referer for proxy
I have set up a very basic proxy rule in nginx.
However the resources where the request are proxyed do a referer check. It must be the same domain the service is running at.
I therefore need to change the referer. I tried a proxy_set_header but that…

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How to bypass OpenVPN per application
I have a linux machine that routes its whole internet traffic through an openVPN connection. It was explicitly configured to work that way.
However, the machine has a few applications that should not use the VPN connection (tun+) and go through the…

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Forward proxy for webservices with SSL client certs
I have lots of servers which access various external webservices, most of which use SSL, some of which require client certificates. I would like to centralize the configuration of client certs and dissociate the presentation layer from the…

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Making proxy available on remote server through ssh tunneling
I know I can use ssh tunneling to create a "proxy" on my machine so that I can make all the traffic generated locally go through a remote server. Like this:
$ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server
But what about if I need to create a "proxy" on the…

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How do I resolve OpenSSH protocol mismatch?
I'm trying to connect to an SSH server running on port 443.
I can SSH into my devbox on Port 443:
ssh -L 8080:devbox:443 root@devbox -p 443
But I can't actually get the devbox to load in my browser. When I go to localhost:8080 I get the following…

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Could my enterprise proxy know the content of an https request?
Like for instance login into my bank account or knowing what information do I submit via HTTPs?
I'm not sure what proxy server do we have.

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Squid proxy: how to link inbound IPv4+port to outbound IPv6
I'm trying to setup a squid proxy that will accept multiple inbound connections on one IPv4 across a range of ports, and for each port connection to connect out on a unique IPv6 address.
I've named each port connection, and designated an ACL based…

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Configure Cntlm to use no proxy if none are available
I am behind a corporate firewall in the day, and on an open internet connection at night. I have configured cntlm to forward to my corporate proxy, but when I connect from an open connection, I must re-configure my proxy settings.
Is there a way to…

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Using Postgres Basic Auth in NGINX to add query result to Proxy HTTP Header
We are trying to use the ngx_postgres module to do basic authentication through NGINX. We want to retrieve a value from the query result-pair and add it to the HTTP Header, and then proxy this to another server.
We have succeeded in authenticating…

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Apache proxy virtual host on backend server
I have 2 web Debian servers, a frontend accepting request from port 80 and a backend via proxy from the frontend.
What I want to do is have a many different URLs going the backend server with virtual hosts.
Here is the frontend Apache…

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How to force all packets go through ssh tunnel?
We have an SSH tunnel (ssh -ND 127.0.0.1:8080 user@example.com), that works fine for browsers if point them to 127.0.0.1:8080 as socks5 proxy, but other traffic is still not going through this tunnel.
How would i make absolutely all traffic go…

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Reverse Proxy on Tomcat
I have a Tomcat application. I now want reverse proxy some of the pages to a different server listening on a different port. On a regular apache server, I would do the following.
ProxyPass /dir1 http://localhost:1234/dir1
ProxyPassReverse /dir1…

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Limit bandwidth per IP address in Squid
I am having Squid 3.1.18 installed. I want to limit the maximum bandwidth any IP can use to 128 Kbps. Is it possible using squid ?
I am not using squid authentication so identifying users and setting limit is not an option. Need some way to limit…

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Could this server log mean my server is being used as a proxy?
I came across the following entry in my access.log:
58.218.199.147 - - [05/Jun/2012:12:56:04 +1000] "GET http://proxyproxys.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 183 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
Normally when I see a full URL entry in my…

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Nginx : strip header on HTTP, add header on HTTPS
I'm configuring an Nginx server so as to serve as a reverse proxy to serve a Django app (run on Gunicorn).
My problem is that I want my site secured with HTTPS, and so I want my Django app to be able to determine whether a connection is secure or…

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