Secure and Harden Forward Proxies in NGINX Plus

In 2025, in NGINX Plus R36, we introduced support for forward proxy through an HTTP CONNECT method. Customers are now able to set up egress traffic flow and use multiple NGINX features to route, secu...
Published Jan 26, 2026
Version 1.0
devops
Kevin_Davies's avatar
Kevin_Davies
Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
Feb 22, 2026

Can I assume this is more for small scale outbound access rather than a fully managed authenticated gateway with SSO? It may be possible to achieve but would it be a good use case to build an outbound corporate solution around this forward proxy capability?