forward proxy on reverse proxy

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This is a weird configuration but is it possible to configure a reverse
proxy to use a forward proxy?

The use case is when the reverse proxy does not have direct access to the
backend web server and requires a forward proxy to reach it.

Is this configuration possible?

Juan

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Juan Rivera [ Mo, 05 Mai 2003 17:49 ] [ ID #12332 ]

Re: forward proxy on reverse proxy

Juan Rivera wrote:

> This is a weird configuration but is it possible to configure a reverse
> proxy to use a forward proxy?
>
> The use case is when the reverse proxy does not have direct access to
> the backend web server and requires a forward proxy to reach it.
>
> Is this configuration possible?

AFAIK yes - there are directives that define a downstream forward proxy,
and as I understand these directives apply for both apache forward and
reverse proxy configs. Look in the docs for more details.

Regards,
Graham
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Graham Leggett [ Mo, 05 Mai 2003 17:57 ] [ ID #12333 ]
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