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
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option to use proxy server and provide proxy server settings. Once you select the option, you can specify the following details:
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You can enable proxy tunneling for HTTP proxy type. After you enable , 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. |
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You can select one of the following authentication types if you are using HTTP proxy type.
is the username of the proxy server can be empty. You can use maximum 256 characters. |