On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:50:56AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:29:26AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it currently possible to pass "HTTP CONNECT" requests directly to the > > backend server? > > > > So haproxy itself shouldn't try to connect anywhere, but instead directly > > pass > > the request to the backend, and let backend handle it. > > Not only it is possible, but it is the only thing it can do :-) Keep in > mind that haproxy is a reverse-proxy and not a proxy, so it will not try > to resolve a host to connect to a specific location for example. Thus, if > it receives a request such as "CONNECT foo:443 HTTP/1.1", it will not try > to resolved "foo", it will send it to one of the servers declared in the > backend. And it is the same for all methods, there is nothing specific to > CONNECT. >
Hmm, I remember trying it earlier (a couple of years ago), and then it didn't work.. I'll have to try it again! Thanks a lot, -- Pasi
