Re: forward proxy on reverse proxy

Graham Leggett <[email protected]> Mon, 05 May 2003 17:57:41 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.mod-proxy
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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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