Re: (reversed) proxy

Hoi Hans,

On 22/05/2024 12:41, Hans via Openvpn-users wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> At the openvpn client side it is possible to use http-encapsulation,
>
> For instance, we use in our client-config:
>
> (snip)
>
> <connection>
>
> http-proxy url-site-A 443
>
> remote  url_vpn-XXX  5555 tcp
>
> </connection>
>
> <connection>
>
> http-proxy url-site-A 443
>
> remote  url_vpn-XXX 6666 tcp
>
> </connection>
>
> <connection>
>
> http-proxy url-site-A 443
>
> remote  url_vpn-YYY  7777 tcp
>
> </connection>
>
> <connection>
>
> http-proxy url-site-A 443
>
> remote  url_vpn-YYY  8888 tcp
>
> </connection>
>
> (snip)
>
> For production this all works fine,
>
> But at development I don’t have  the equipment for doing the reversed 
> proxy functionality…
>
> So I’ve searching around, and found little to no examples.
>
> I’ve tried tinyproxy and nginx (internet’s suggestions  refer to much 
> older releases of those products)
>
> So if you do reversed proxy between internet and your vpn-server, what 
> do you use?
>
> -Commercial bricks?
>
> -Tinyproxy?
>
> -Nginx?
>
> -Squid?
>
> -Apache2?
>
> -Anything else, like Stunnel?
>
what exactly do you  mean by "reversed proxy functionality" ?
For development purposes (and e.g. for my old OpenVPN cookbook) , I used 
apache httpd+mod_proxy ; nowadays I simply using `tinyproxy` for these 
things.

HTH,

JJK

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