SNI Proxy

Proxies incoming HTTP and TLS connections based on the hostname contained in the initial request. This enables HTTPS name based virtual hosting to separate backend servers without the installing the private key on the proxy machine.

Features

• Name-based proxying of HTTPS without decrypting traffic. No keys or certificates required.
• Supports both TLS and HTTP protocols.
• Supports IPv4, IPv6 and Unix domain sockets for both back end servers and listeners.
• Supports multiple listening sockets per instance.

Usage

Usage: sniproxy [-c <config>] [-f]
    -c  configuration file, defaults to /etc/sniproxy.conf
    -f  run in foreground, do not drop privileges

Installation

For Debian or Fedora based Linux distributions see building packages below.

Prerequisites

• Autotools (autoconf, automake and libtool)
• libev4 and libpcre development headers
• Perl and cURL for test suite

Install

./autogen.sh && ./configure && make check && sudo make install

Building Debian/Ubuntu package

This is the preferred installation method on recent Debian based distributions:

1. Install required packages

   sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev cdbs debhelper dh-autoreconf libev-dev libpcre3-dev

2. Build a Debian package

   dpkg-buildpackage

3. Install the resulting package

   sudo dpkg -i ../sniproxy__.deb

Note on Upgrading

The version of sniproxy is not automatically updated after each commit, so if you are upgrading to later version 10 version number of the sniproxy package may not have actually changed. This may cause issues with the upgrade process. It is recommended you uninstall sudo apt-get remove sniproxy then reinstall the new version.

Building Fedora/RedHat package

This is the preferred installation method for modern Fedora based distributions.

1. Install required packages

   sudo yum install rpmbuild autoconf automake curl libev-devel pcre-devel perl

2. First build a distribution tarball:

   ./autogen && ./configure && make dist

3. Build a RPM package

   rpmbuild --define "_sourcedir pwd" -ba redhat/sniproxy.spec

4. Install resulting RPM

   sudo yum install ../sniproxy-..rpm

I've used Scientific Linux 6 a fair amount, but I prefer Debian based distributions. I do not test building RPMs frequently (SL6 doesn't have a libev-devel package). This build process may not follow the current Fedora packaging standards, and may not even work.

Configuration Syntax

user daemon

pidfile /tmp/sniproxy.pid

listener 127.0.0.1:443 {
    protocol tls
    table TableName
}

table TableName {
    # Match exact request hostnames
    example.com 192.0.2.10:4343
    example.net [2001:DB8::1:10]:443
    # Or use regular expression to match
    .*\\.com    [2001:DB8::1:11]:443
    # Combining regular expression and wildcard will resolve the hostname
    # client requested and proxy to it
    .*\\.edu    *:443
}