akka/akka-http

Add `reverseProxy` directive

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#240 opened on Sep 12, 2016

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Issue by jrudolph Tuesday Feb 10, 2015 at 16:33 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/16844

to enable simple proxying of single requests to an (internal) remote backend.

This has some security implications: What to do with cookies, authentication data, etc.? So, it may make sense to provide some safe-guards preventing people from simply relaying requests e.g. by requiring to whitelist potential targets in the configuration or something similar.

See the discussions in the original ticket spray/spray#145 and an existing PR spray/spray#764.

/cc @sirthias

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Research direction
Review existing discussions and PRs (spray/spray#145, spray/spray#764) to understand prior design considerations. Design a reverseProxy directive with whitelist based target validation and cookie/authentication handling.
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scala
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backend
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