Questions tagged [proxy]

A device or program that stands between two or more interconnected programs or devices. Use [dynamic-proxy] for the Java class, [proxy-pattern] for the design pattern, [es6-proxy] for the JavaScript Proxy object.

A proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection or a web page available from a different server, and the proxy server evaluates the request as a way to simplify and control its complexity.


Purpose

Many users worry about what kind of information can be traced back to them. An Internet proxy server can be used as an intermediary so that the sites never directly connect to the host network. Some websites block certain Internet users by geography, so using a Web proxy located in the Web host's country will allow foreign users to use the website.


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http-proxy-middleware does not forward the full path

I am trying to configure BrowserSync to work in server mode and to proxy my API requests to the backend that runs on the same machine on a different port, using http-proxy-middleware. I use Gulp to launch BrowserSync. BrowserSync runs on port 8081.…
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Using Load Balancer Instead of Proxy Server

I am planning on running both a Java web app (www.example.com) and a wordpress blog (www.example.com/blog) on the same domain. Tomcat server serves my Java web app content and Apache server serves the WordPress content. Originally, I was going to…
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phantomjs + selenium in python proxy-auth not working

I'm trying to set a proxy for webscraping using selenium + phantomjs. I'm using python. I've seen in many places that there is a bug in phantomjs such that proxy-auth does not work. from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import * from selenium…
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Apache Websocket Proxy dropped connections

I'm trying to proxy a websocket through Apache 2.4.7 (running on Ubuntu). The connection is correctly established but if the browser or the server don't send each other data for some time (few minutes) new messages coming from the server are not…
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Castle Dynamic Proxy of Interface and not Derived Class

namespace DynamicInterception { public class Calculator { public virtual int Div(int a, int b) { try { return a / b; } catch (Exception ex) { …
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Use proxy only if file does not exist

I try to pass my visitors to an interface via Apache proxy. This works. For customization of the interface (CSS, images etc.) we want that we can overwrite files on the remote server. This is our code: RewriteEngine on SSLProxyEngine…
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Using Haskell's SimpleHTTP with a Proxy?

I'm trying to figure out how make a basic GET request using Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP that will use a proxy. I have tried setting the http_proxy environment variable, and I think I understand how to make a Proxy using Network.HTTP.Proxy. But there…
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CORS (Access Control Allow Origin) on Apache Proxy issue

I need to send a CORS header from my map server (QGIS mapserver) that use a fast cgi with Apache 2.4.* on the port 8080. I configured the with a simple [...] Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" and…
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Scrapy gets NoneType Error when using Privoxy Proxy for Tor

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I tried Polipo, but it kept refusing Firefox's connections even if I added myself as allowedClient and hours of researching with no solution. So instead, I installed Privoxy and I verified it work with Firefox by going…
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How to see web socket requests in Charles Proxy

I'm using a free version (3.11.5 as of this writing) of Charles Proxy and proxying my iPhone through it to attempt to reverse engineer some real-time features of an app I'm using. I'm successfully able to see all http/https request in and out of the…
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Angular 2 App Behind Proxy

I may have looked over something obvious, but I am having trouble getting my angular2 app to work through a proxy. To my understanding I have to hardcode the base href for the app and the router to work, this seems problematic when the base url can…
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BrowserSync proxy on remote server with Gulp?

I have a remote Linux server that I'm running a Node.js app on, that is proxy'ed through nginx at http://www.example.com. I have gulp (for SASS compiling) installed with BrowserSync. Whenever I start up gulp on the server, the access urls are…
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JMeter with Socks Proxy?

I want to load test a socks proxy I have setup on aws. I would like to generate traffic from outside of the vpc. For now testing from my local machine should be sufficient but eventually I would like to move testing to one or more ec2 instances.…
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Do SOCKS proxy servers exist that have SSL support?

I came across an open source SOCKS client library that supports connecting to a SOCKS proxy using a trustmanager key to verify the remote server. However, I have been unable to find SOCKS proxy servers that support this. Are these available at all…
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How to access a proxy without username and password?

I want to automate a time keeping web client, using nokogiri and mechanize. I need to connect via a proxy server, however the catch is, I don't know the username and password of said proxy server. I would like to grab the cached credentials for this…
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