[undertow-dev] Using undertow client with proxy servers

[Stuart Douglas]

I am unlikely to get to it in the short term.

Stuart

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Kim Rasmussen <kr at asseco.dk> wrote:
> Thanks Stuart,
>
> I've created a JIRA issue to track it here:
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-1138 Do you think it is something
> you want to implement and have time to do within a reasonable timeframe ? or
> should I try to get it done myself ?
>
> Thanks
> /Kim
>
>
>
> 2017-07-18 6:05 GMT+02:00 Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com>:
>>
>> io.undertow.websockets.client.WebSocketClient contains an example of
>> how to use the CONNECT method, although we don't currently have any
>> way of then using the client over the created connection.
>>
>> I think that ideally this would be implemented by enhancing the
>> existing client implementations, you should not really need a new
>> ClientProvider as the only real difference is in the connection
>> establishment.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Kim Rasmussen <kr at asseco.dk> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a usecase where I have a reverse proxy that uses a customized
>> > ProxyHandler - for some hosts, I need to proxy the requests onwards via
>> > a
>> > proxy server - e.g. a bluecoat proxy.
>> >
>> > So something like this:
>> > Browser --> Undertow reverse proxy --> Bluecoat Proxy --> Web server
>> >
>> > So, I need to use the undertow client with a (non-reverse) proxy server.
>> >
>> > I am guessing that with a ClientRequest, for non-ssl requests I should
>> > just
>> > be able to change the path from /mypath to http://my.server.name/mypath
>> > before sending it to the proxy server instead of to the destination host
>> > directly.
>> >
>> > But what would be the ideal way of handling this when I need SSL so I
>> > need
>> > to wrap the requests inside a "CONNECT my.server.name:443 HTTP/1.1"
>> > block
>> > before starting the SSL negotiation ? Any pointers ?
>> >
>> > Would creating a specific ClientProvider be a sensible way ?
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
>> > Kim Rasmussen
>> > Partner, IT Architect
>> >
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>
>
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>
> Kim Rasmussen
> Partner, IT Architect
>
> Asseco Denmark A/S
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> Mobile: +45 26 16 40 23
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