Smokescreen
Configuring Stripe’s Smokescreen as a forward proxy for Convoy
Stripe’s Smokescreen is a powerful tool that can be used as a forward proxy for Convoy, it can be used to achieve Static IPs for your outbound webhook events.
Why Use a Forward Proxy?
A forward proxy acts as an intermediary between clients and servers, forwarding requests on behalf of clients and providing additional services such as caching, security, and anonymity. By using Smokescreen as a forward proxy for Convoy, you can benefit from its advanced features and capabilities.
Configuring Smokescreen as a Forward Proxy
To configure Smokescreen as a forward proxy for Convoy, follow the steps here to install smokescreen on your server.
Start smokcscreen by running:
In your convoy.json file, you need to specify the url to smokescreen as your proxy value:
For more extensive documentation of Smokescreen’s configuration see here.
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Smokescreen allows you to specify access control lists, these help prevent IP spoofing attacks.
The enforce
action makes smokescreen strictly follow the defined rule, as opposed to report
which allows the rule to be broken with a warning. For more extensive documentation of Smokescreen’s configuration see here.
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