Connecting via an HTTP proxy with authentication
In the previous recipe, a plain HTTP proxy was used to connect to an OpenVPN server. As a follow-up, in this recipe we will show how an OpenVPN connection can be set up when the HTTP proxy server requires authentication.
The HTTP proxy used in this recipe is a Linux-based Apache httpd server with the mod_proxy module loaded and configured for basic authentication.
Getting ready
We will use the following network layout:
Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks. For this recipe, the server computer was running CentOS 6 Linux and OpenVPN ...
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