Reverse Proxy operating on OpenVPN specific entries?

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finke
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Reverse Proxy operating on OpenVPN specific entries?

Post by finke » Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:41 pm

Hello everyone,

does anyone know how to set up a reverse proxy that could decide (e.g. relay, drop, etc) based on
- client distinct name (so the reverse proxy could drop all unknown clients)
- openvpn version (could be used to support very old clients also, which cannot be upgraded for any reason)
- requested cipher
- ...
Would it be possible to run Openvpn itself as a reverse proxy? How?

I am not looking for well known proxies like nginx, haproxy or sslh.

Thanks

Torsten

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Re: Reverse Proxy operating on OpenVPN specific entries?

Post by TinCanTech » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:41 pm

cron2 wrote:OpenVPN is not using HTTPS, so you can't connect through a reverse proxy
hope that helps.
finke wrote:
Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:41 pm
openvpn version (could be used to support very old clients also, which cannot be upgraded for any reason)
If they cannot be upgraded then they must be replaced.

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