How to use NGINX as forward proxy for any requested location?

Your code appears to be using a forward proxy (often just “proxy”), not reverse proxy and they operate quite differently. Reverse proxy is for server end and something client doesn’t really see or think about. It’s to retrieve content from the backend servers and hand to the client. Forward proxy is something the client sets … Read more

Proxy Error 502 : The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server

The HTTP 502 “Bad Gateway” response is generated when Apache web server does not receive a valid HTTP response from the upstream server, which in this case is your Tomcat web application. Some reasons why this might happen: Tomcat may have crashed The web application did not respond in time and the request from Apache … Read more

How do I set the proxy to be used by the JVM

From the Java documentation (not the javadoc API): http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html Set the JVM flags http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort when starting your JVM on the command line. This is usually done in a shell script (in Unix) or bat file (in Windows). Here’s the example with the Unix shell script: When using containers such as JBoss or WebLogic, my solution is to edit … Read more

HTTPS connections over proxy servers

TLS/SSL (The S in HTTPS) guarantees that there are no eavesdroppers between you and the server you are contacting, i.e. no proxies. Normally, you use CONNECT to open up a TCP connection through the proxy. In this case, the proxy will not be able to cache, read, or modify any requests/responses, and therefore be rather useless. If … Read more