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Nimbostratus

Nov 28, 2017

Nodes behind proxies

We have an odd scenario we need help with. We have a pool with nodes which must be reached via a proxy. The nodes will have public IPs, but to reach them we have to go through an on-site proxy. Is...

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Altocumulus

Nov 29, 2017

I don't think this can be done natively, but it could be done with an iRule. I haven't tried this one, but it looks similar to your scenario if your proxy supports

CONNECT

: Virtual to enable proxy-unaware applications to make outbound TCP connections via a HTTP CONNECT method. Another approach might be to transform the URI part of the request into a full URL for the forward proxy to use.

I hope this points you in the right direction.

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