Questions tagged [transparent-proxy]
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Can I use iptables on my Varnish server to forward HTTPS traffic to a specific server?
We use Varnish as our front-end web cache and load balancer, so we have a Linux server in our development environment, running Varnish with some basic caching and load-balancing rules across a pair of Windows 2008 IIS web servers.
We have a wildcard…

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Tunnel an SSH connection transparently (no ProxyCommand)
Here's the scenario: the user runs "ssh -i sshkey user@server1". I want the SSH connection to be tunneled through server1 to server2. Normally, the user could do this himself using:
ssh -i sshkey user@server1 -o 'ProxyCommand /bin/nc server2…

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Simple proxy server for Windows that supports chaining proxies?
Are there any small/simple proxy servers for Windows, that support chaining further proxies?
Example:
Browser connects to proxy server.
Proxy server connects to another proxy server.
Proxy server connects yet another proxy server.
Traffic: Browser…

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Configuring Ubuntu for Global SOCKS5 proxy
what is the best way to configure Ubuntu to use a SOCKS5 proxy for all network traffic? Server is ubuntu server. I want to push all outbound traffic through the proxy (apt-get, http, https, etc). Everything but ssh should hit the proxy server.

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How to config automatic proxy from DHCP in windows server 2003?
I am running squid proxy, and currently my users are being configured directly to the squid server. I am trying to setup a proxy.pac to simplify the process.
The proxy.pac working fine in the network by configuring the configuration URL, but we need…

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Do transparent proxies have limitations comparing to non-transparent proxies?
I wonder why would companies use non-transparent proxies when the transparent ones seems better to me.

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Does IIS6 have a secret, unlogged, transparent, case-sensitive proxy?
Does IIS have a secret, unlogged, transparent, case-sensitive proxy built into it?
A file exists on the web-server:
GET http://www.stackoverflow.com/javascript/ModifyQuoteArea.js HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml,…

Ian Boyd
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Is there a simple command-line HTTP proxy that outputs to STDOUT?
Is there a command-line HTTP proxy that outputs to STDOUT so I can use it with Unix pipes?
I want to do something like this:
Start the proxy at the command-line:
$ proxy -p 8888 | grep "Text I'm interested in" > ~/my_log.txt
Configure my browser…

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Redirected traffic with iptables to squid not displaying custom error page?
I've created a squid configuration with the directive:
deny_info ERR_PROXY_INFO all
And tested this by setting squids port to 8080, then setting my browser proxy to 192.168.1.3:8080
This does display the custom error page.
But when I try to make it…

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setting up a proxy to mirror an SSH SOCKS connection
I have two remote machines, remote1 and remote2. remote2 is only running sshd, and I can't run anything else on it. remote1 is a full-fledged server to which I have complete access. I can run a SOCKS proxy on remote2 via ssh -f -N -D *:8080…

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configure squid to act as transparent proxy
I have configured squid to support transparency using this command
./configure --enable-ipfw-transparent --enable-ssl
I have started squid, is there any other configuration that i need to add so that all web requests do not bypass the proxy
I have…

Gatura
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How to Make NGINX to use System Proxy?
I am trying to setup a nginx server that forwards the incoming request to a corporate porxy (its a mcafee proxy) with a proxy header Host and the actual destination host something like proxy_set_header Host xyz.com:443.
This works perfectly fine for…

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Migrate web server to new datacenter and new IP
I have a web server that hosts 200+ domains but it needs to be moved to another data center and get a new IP address. But since all DNS settings have to be updated manually, I thought about whether you could set up some kind of transparent proxy at…

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How do I proxy all local traffic on 127.0.0.1:1080 use nftables tproxy
On my desktop linux,I want to surf the Internet through a proxy VPN.
I already have a client for a transparent proxy listing on 127.0.0.1:1080.
I want the traffic generated by the local process to pass through this client.
I know that TProxy is only…

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Proxy Protocol with Nginx Reverse Proxy
Overview
I have an Nginx reverse proxy setup pointing to a SaaS application (BigCommerce). While my configuration works great, I'm not able to ensure the client IP shows in the SaaS backend instead of the Reverse Proxy IP. In the SaaS backend,…

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