a proxy for anonymous browsing

From: Magnus Hansen <maghansen#gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:19:52 +0200

Hello.
I like HAproxy very much. I use it at work and it works like a charm. However i am still quite new to all of this...

My question is:
I need to set up a proxy simply for browsing showing the IP of the server.
My collegue needs it and has shown me how he wants just to setup a proxy in his firefox...
How can i make HAproxy do this? ( i would love to use HAproxy instead of something else )

I tried to look in the docs, but could not find it. Most likeliy because i dont know where to look.
My only attempt so far has been to use the example in option- http_proxy.cfg that kinda looked like what i needed.. When i tried to insert my ip and port of the proxy into firefox i get a 503.

The output from HAproxy is.

00000000:test-proxy.clireq[0006:ffff]: GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.1
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Host: google.com
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0  

(Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/ 2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Accept: text/html,application/ xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Accept-Charset:  

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Keep-Alive: 300
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Cookie:  

PREF=ID=793a11787bd5f6b1:TM=1226081674:LM=1251737857:S=_BeK_H4I2dhgftYB

00000000:test-proxy.clihdr[0006:ffff]: Cache-Control: max-age=0
00000000:test-proxy-srv.clicls[0006:ffff]
00000000:test-proxy-srv.closed[0006:ffff]

and my config is:

#
# demo config for Proxy mode
#

global

         maxconn         2000
         ulimit-n        16384
         log             127.0.0.1 local0


#        uid             200

#        gid             200

#        chroot          /var/empty

         nbproc          4
         daemon
         user root
         group root

frontend test-proxy
         bind            x.x.x.x:80
         mode            http
         log             global
         option          httplog
         option          dontlognull
         option          httpclose
         option          nolinger
         option          http_proxy
         maxconn         8000
         clitimeout      30000

         # layer3: Valid users
         acl allow_host src xx.xx.xx.xx/32


         block if !allow_host

         # layer7: prevent private network relaying
         acl forbidden_dst url_ip 192.168.0.0/24
         acl forbidden_dst url_ip 172.16.0.0/12
         acl forbidden_dst url_ip 10.0.0.0/8
         block if forbidden_dst

         default_backend test-proxy-srv


backend test-proxy-srv
         mode            http


#       contimeout      5000

#       srvtimeout      5000

         retries         2
         option          nolinger
         option          http_proxy

Received on 2009/08/31 19:19