Implementing CONNECT in nginx

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 15:43 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 16:14 +0100, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I would like to extend nginx with a CONNECT statement which connects to
> > a TCP socket. Could someone walk me through which source files I need to
> > modify and which fucntions I should have a look at?
> > 
> > Or if there is anything else that can give me a quickstart?
> > 
> > My use case is that I would like to share one tcp port between a
> > webserver that I already have and a SSL VPN. The SSL VPN does the
> > following:
> > 
> > CONNECT /CSCOSSLC/tunnel HTTP/1.1
> 
> Johannes, you had patches for lighttpd for this once, didn't you? I
> can't find them now... http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/ seems
> to have disappeared.

I tried once, yes, to make it possible to hand it off to some
openconnect server implementation (which didn't exist at the time). And
I only deleted all my ancient patches last week, heh. No matter, backups
FTW, I've restored that patch.

However, I believe that it probably wasn't passing enough information
through (certificate, etc.) and I don't really even remember how it
worked.

johannes