platform
Introducing BareProxy, the Reverse Proxy That Explains Itself
Most applications use a small part of nginx. They terminate TLS, route by host and path, spread requests over backends that are up, change config without dropping …
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config
How BareProxy Plan Shows What a Config Change Will Do Before It Goes Live
The riskiest moment in a proxy’s day is a config change. Cloudflare’s two outages at the end of 2025 both started with one that reached every server within …
tracing
One Record per Request: How BareProxy Tracing Works
Every request BareProxy handles gets a random ID, sent to the backend and back to the client in a BareProxy-Id header, and shown on every error page BareProxy writes. …
modules
BareProxy Modules: Nine Add-Ons Around a Bare Core
BareProxy Core does six things: proxying, TLS, routing, backend health, config changes and request tracing. Everything else is a module, compiled in only when you want …
security
Why BareProxy Routes on the Same Path It Forwards
Many proxy bypasses share one cause: the proxy reads a path one way and the application reads it another. A rule that blocks /admin/ does nothing if the request arrives …