How to configure netscaler to act as a simple HTTP proxy

http-proxynetscaler

I want to start use a netscaler instance as a HTTP proxy (like squid), so all the requests from my browser will go directly to netscaler.

How can I obtain this behaviour?

Note: Netscaler is already configured to deal with requests coming from 80 and 443 ports on the VIP interface.

Still I do want to allow it to process any requests.

Note: if you wonder why, the primary motive is for testing purpose, it's much easier to tell people to configure a HTTP proxy inside their browser instead of modifying the hosts file in order to force few websites to use a different server.

By doing this, it would allow me to easily perform an A/B testing of the netscaler configuration.

Best Answer

Your answer is here:

http://blogs.citrix.com/2010/02/25/netscaler-feature-of-the-day-deploy-as-a-forward-proxy/

It uses the cache redirection feature to process the traffic.

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Create a setenv.sh (or setenv.bat if running windows), if you don't already have one, and add the following java options:

JAVA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxySet=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=<proxy_hostname> -Dhttp.proxyPort=<port_number> -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=<domain_one>|<domain two> $JAVA_OPTS"

This should work nicely.

Simple command-line HTTP proxy that outputs to STDOUT

Can you skip the proxy, and just use tcpdump with the -A option and a filter?

# capture everything destined for port 80
tcpdump -qni eth0 -s 0 -A port 80

# capture everything destined for port 80 on 192.168.32.1
tcpdump -qni eth0 -s 0 -A port 80 and host 192.168.32.1

# capture everything destined for port 80 and display only the interesting bit.
tcpdump -qni eth0 -s 0 -A port 80 | grep "Text I'm interested in"

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