OpenStack Swift proxy settings

For security purpose, you can use a proxy server to establish communication with the cloud storage.

The following table describes the options of the Proxy Settings dialog box.

Table: Proxy settings for OpenStack Swift

Option	Description
Use Proxy Server	Use Proxy Server option to use proxy server and provide proxy server settings. Once you select the Use Proxy Server option, you can specify the following details: Proxy Host - Specify IP address or name of the proxy server. Proxy Port - Specify port number of the proxy server. Possible values: 1-65535 Proxy Type - You can select one of the following proxy types: HTTP Note: You need to provide the proxy credentials for HTTP proxy type. SOCKS SOCKS4 SOCKS5 SOCKS4A
Use Proxy Tunneling	You can enable proxy tunneling for HTTP proxy type. After you enable Use Proxy Tunneling, HTTP CONNECT requests are send from the cloud media server to the HTTP proxy server and the TCP connection is directly forwarded to the cloud back-end storage. The data passes through the proxy server without reading the headers or data from the connection.
Authentication Type	You can select one of the following authentication types if you are using HTTP proxy type. None - Authentication is not enabled. Username and password is not required. NTLM - Username and password needed. Basic - Username and password needed. Username is the username of the proxy server Password can be empty. You can use maximum 256 characters.

Option

Description

Use Proxy Server

Use Proxy Server option to use proxy server and provide proxy server settings. Once you select the Use Proxy Server option, you can specify the following details:

Proxy Host - Specify IP address or name of the proxy server.
Proxy Port - Specify port number of the proxy server. Possible values: 1-65535
Proxy Type - You can select one of the following proxy types:
- HTTP
  Note:
  You need to provide the proxy credentials for HTTP proxy type.
- SOCKS
- SOCKS4
- SOCKS5
- SOCKS4A

Use Proxy Tunneling

You can enable proxy tunneling for HTTP proxy type.

After you enable Use Proxy Tunneling, HTTP CONNECT requests are send from the cloud media server to the HTTP proxy server and the TCP connection is directly forwarded to the cloud back-end storage.

The data passes through the proxy server without reading the headers or data from the connection.

Authentication Type

You can select one of the following authentication types if you are using HTTP proxy type.

None - Authentication is not enabled. Username and password is not required.
NTLM - Username and password needed.
Basic - Username and password needed.

Username is the username of the proxy server

Password can be empty. You can use maximum 256 characters.

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