XF 2.0 Recommended HTTP Proxy for $config['http']['proxy'] ?

Anomandaris

Anomandaris

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When behind a reverse proxy, these features expose your origin IP to a resourceful attacker:

  • Unfurl URL to a rich preview automatically
  • Convert URLs to page titles
  • Image Proxy

For protection I want to setup a proxy to use in combination with this config.php option:
$config['http']['proxy']

What is the simplest way to host my own? Or can anyone recommend a simple service? Any other considerations to think about? I was planning to just run a 5$/month droplet and set one up

Thank you in advance.
 
Solution
Anomandaris
I opened a support ticket and I was told that the http proxy client doesn't allow for authentication.

I ended up using tinyproxy on a 5$ DO droplet, easy to install and setup as a forward proxy for this purpose:

NGINX: 
yum install -y epel-release
yum update -y
yum -y install tinyproxy

/usr/sbin/tinyproxy stop

nano -w /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf

#modify the config and set:
XTinyproxy No # (turns off transparent proxy, stop sending source IP in header)

#Allow any IPs that will connect to this proxy, everything else will be auto denied
Allow xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx #replace xxx with your server IP, duh

/usr/sbin/tinyproxy start

works great
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