We are designing a deployment were NGINX front ends all incoming https 
connection and then forwards it to multiple web containers like
Tomcat and Node.js which listen on internal ports on 127.0.0.1.

I have some questions here

  1.  Is it possible to route Outbound connection through NGINX as well. I.e 
for requests outbound from Tomcat/Node.js, can the requests  be forwarded to an 
internal nginx port first over HTTP and then Nginx will proxy them to the 
destination over HTTPS?
  2.  Are there any high to medium severity known threats for having an HTTP 
connection between nginx and the other web containers listening on local ports 
on the same machine instead of using HTTPS.Is is there any other alternative?
  3.  What is the best way to allow access from a list of know IP addresses at 
the NGINX layer. That is a White list of Ips. Would it be by using mod_security 
or the ngx_http_access_module. Is the one better over the other?

Thanks,
Anamitra
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