On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:30:12PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > 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..
There is no reason. It's been used since maybe version 1.1 (10 years ago) in front of proxies where this was already working. So if you see any failure, please report ! Thanks, Willy
