On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:10:55PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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 ! >
Ok, will do. -- Pasi
