Hello Moemen, unless I got this wrong this isn't the setup I search for. I don't need haproxy to *be* a proxy but rather *use* a proxy while serving content over http as a reverse proxy
Perhaps I should have given the thread this name Am 11. Dezember 2017 16:56:12 MEZ schrieb Moemen MHEDHBI <mmhed...@haproxy.com>: > > >On 11/12/2017 15:02, Gbg wrote: >> I need to contact applications through a socks or http proxy. >> >> My current setup looks like this but only works when the Computer >> haproxy runs on has direct Internet connection (which is not the case >> in our datacenter, I tried this at home) >> >> frontend main >> bind *:8000 >> acl is_extweb1 path_beg -i /policies >> acl is_extweb2 path_beg -i /produkte >> use_backend externalweb1 if is_extweb1 >> use_backend externalweb2 if is_extweb2 >> >> backend externalweb1 >> server static www.google.com:80 check >> >> backend externalweb2 >> server static www.gmx.net:80 check >> >> There is an SO post which addresses the same question and provides >> some more details: >> >https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47605766/use-haproxy-as-an-reverse-proxy-with-an-application-behind-internet-proxy > > > >Hi Gbg, > >For this to work you need the client (browser for example) to be aware >of the forward proxy. >So first you need to configure the client to use HAProxy as a forward >proxy, then in the HAProxy conf you need to use the forward proxy in >the >backend and the configuration may look like this: > >frontend main >bind *:8000 >acl is_extweb path_beg -i /policies /produkte >use_backend forward_proxy if is_extweb >default_backend another_backend > >backend forward_proxy > server static < IP-of-the-forward-proxy > : < Port > check > > >++ > >Moemen MHEDHBI -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
