On 2014-09-03 at 09:21 +1200, Craig Miskell wrote:
> Sadly, I think you'll find that nginx doesn't do HTTPS forward proxying (i.e 
> support CONNECT).  
> 
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,15124,15256#msg-15256

That thread is from 2009.

CONNECT is for local proxies, not reverse proxies: if you're letting
through CONNECT then you can't do anything sensible with the content ,
because then the client is negotiating TLS with the upstream and you're
relegated to fairly dumb TLS frame passer.

To do forward proxying, you end up wanting the front-end proxy to
_terminate_ the HTTPS and handle the requests, then use HTTPS for the
backend/upstream, with the proxy performing HTTPS identity validation,
etc.

nginx does that just fine.

-Phil
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