Proxy server using Django

Question

I am trying to create a local proxy server in django, but I am unable to redirect the proxy requests to my view. In my system settings, I have set my django server as the proxy.

I am getting logs as such in my server:

[27/Dec/2016 22:01:40]"CONNECT www.google.co.in:443 HTTP/1.1" 404 1783

My URL configuration is:

url(r'^.*$', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name=u'homepage', permanent=False))

What am I doing wrong while trying to redirect any browser request to my view?

Answer 1

you are comparing a proxy server with an wsgi based http server, when you run a Django development server ( python manage.py runserver), Django runs a wsgi compatible http server, that handles only requests ( URIs ?), not a tcp request content, so you need a http proxy server that copies the request buffer to the application server atleast.There are many available but if you need to implement own, there is already an answered question here