[Privoxy-users] A quick question

Fabian Keil fk at fabiankeil.de
Wed Oct 16 09:34:40 UTC 2019


oldkid <oldkid at gmx.com> wrote:

> I don't understand HTTP very well. I want to ask before I delve into
> walls of manuals:
> I want privoxy to work like a web app, for example, when I send a
> request to the privoxy server with a url like
> "server.com/privoxy/example.com/file.zip", then it intercepts the
> request and forwards that to "example.com", without the "/privoxy" part
> it forwards the request to Apache. On the client side I create rules to
> rewrite out going requests. For https, I can setup a reverse proxy such
> as nginx behind privoxy to terminte TLS there. Will this actually work?
> Thanks in advance.

You can use the redirect{} action for this:
https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#REDIRECT

Fabian
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