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# Apache Module mod_proxy_connect

Description: | `mod_proxy` extension for `CONNECT` request handling
Status: | Extension
Module Identifier: | proxy_connect_module
Source File: | proxy_connect.c

### Summary

This module requires the service of `mod_proxy`. It provides support for the `CONNECT` HTTP method. This method is mainly used to tunnel SSL requests through proxy servers.

Thus, in order to get the ability of handling `CONNECT` requests, `mod_proxy` and `mod_proxy_connect` have to be present in the server.

### Warning

Do not enable proxying until you have secured your server. Open proxy servers are dangerous both to your network and to the Internet at large.

### Directives

This module provides no directives.

### See also

- `AllowCONNECT`
- `mod_proxy`