Welcome to django-revproxy

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A simple reverse proxy using Django. It allows to use Django as a reverse Proxy to HTTP requests. It also allows to use Django as an authentication Proxy.

Documentation available at http://django-revproxy.readthedocs.org/

Features

  • Proxies all HTTP methods: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE, CONNECT and PATCH

  • Copy all http headers sent from the client to the proxied server

  • Copy all http headers sent from the proxied server to the client (except hop-by-hop)

  • Basic URL rewrite

  • Sets the http header REMOTE_USER if the user is logged in Django

  • Sets the http headers X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto

  • Handles redirects

  • Few external dependencies

  • Apply XSLT transformation in the response (requires Diazo)

Dependencies

  • django >= 3.0

  • urllib3 >= 1.12

  • diazo >= 1.0.5 (optional)

  • lxml >= 3.4, < 3.5 (optional, but diazo dependency)

Install

pip install django-revproxy

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