Device or program that stands between two or more interconnected programs/devices
Questions tagged [proxy]
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How DNS lookups work when using an HTTP proxy (or not) in IE
I recently participated in a discussion regarding what happens when a client requests a page from a proxy server. I just wanted to make sure that my understanding of this sequence of events was correct in the general case:
User requests site
A DNS…
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Nginx proxy by Request Method
Is it possible/how can I configure an Nginx location block to proxy to different backends depending on the request method (ie. GET/POST)?
The reason is, I am currently handling the 2 methods at 2 different URLs (one via http proxy and the other via…
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What effect does https traffic have on web cache proxy servers?
I just took two university courses on computer security and internet programming. I was thinking about this the other day:
Web cache proxy servers cache popular content from servers on the web. This is useful, for example, if your company has a 1…
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Why does sub_filter seem to not work when used in conjunction with proxy_pass?
Given the following configuration of nginx:
server {
listen 80;
server_name apilocal;
sub_filter "apiupstream/api" "apilocal";
sub_filter_once off;
location /people/ {
proxy_pass http://apiupstream/api/people/;
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How do I configure proxy settings for LOCAL SYSTEM?
If I edit Proxy Settings through the Control Panel, the settings are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable and ...\ProxyServer. These settings are of course not used when running as a…
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Why am I getting an "Invalid command 'ProxyPass'" error when I start my Apache 2.2 server?
I'm having trouble getting Proxying working in Apache 2.2
When I try to start it, I get an Invalid command 'ProxyPass' error. that would be indicative of proxy_http_module not being loaded. However when I look at the debug, it seems to be there.…
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Apache Proxy TimeOut
I am trying to understand what is happening with the following message in our Apache 2.2 error_log:
Wed May 18 21:03:29 2011] [error] [client 172.20.10.10] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: proxy: error reading status line from remote server…
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Nginx proxy to back-end with SSL client certificate authentication
I have two servers, both have nginx. Server A is listening to 443 and is configured to authenticate with a Client SSL certificate.
Server B has an internal process that needs to communicate to Server A through nginx.
I'd like to configure Nginx on…
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Proxy exceptions when using $http_proxy env var?
In a typical browser, when we set a proxy server, we can define a list of hostnames/IP addresses that are not to use the proxy server. How do we accomplish the same thing when using $http_proxy? I rely on setting $http_proxy to use the proxy server…
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Can any of the popular IM networks work like this?
Joe, Jack and Jill use IM as a communication medium among themselves in Company A, where they work, and with customers and partners around the world. No goofing off here -- it's a legitimate work tool.
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How can I set proxy for subversion with ssh tunnel?
I want to check out/update the code via proxy since my local connection is slow. I setup ssh tunnel : ssh -D 8090 user@ssh.proxy.net
to forward all the packets to my localhost:8090.
How can I set up subversion to use this?
okidogi
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Relationship between bastion host and jump host
What's are the differences/similarities between a "bastion host" and a "jump host"? Are they usually used interchangeably?
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How to inject HTML code into every delivered HTML page?
I've got an Apache web server that delivers static HTML pages. For some reason I can't change the files themselves, but I still want to inject some HTML into every page that is being served.
Is this possible with mod_proxy? If not, could anyone…
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How can I disable encryption on openssh?
I'm having performance problems using openssh (server) and putty (client) combination to use a remote webproxy. I'd like to disable encryption and test the results to see if it makes a difference. How can i do that? Is there anything i can modify in…
Mark
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using trailing slashes in nginx configuration
location /product {
proxy_pass http://10.0.0.25:8080;
}
if I use my first location description for product folder, I should use http://mysdomain.com/product/ and I can not use http://mysdomain.com/product from browser. I mean I…
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