Description

This plugin tries to determine if the remote end has a reverse proxy installed. The procedure used to detect reverse proxies is to send a request to the remote server and analyze the response headers, if a Via header is found, chances are that the remote site has a reverse proxy.

Plugin type

Infrastructure

Options

This plugin doesn’t have any user configured options.

Source

For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, there’s always the source code to understand exactly what’s under the hood:
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Unittest source code

Dependencies

This plugin depends on infrastructure.detect_transparent_proxy.