HTTP Middleware Overview

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Configuration Example

Kubernetes IngressRoute

# As a Kubernetes Traefik IngressRoute
---
apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: stripprefix
spec:
  stripPrefix:
    prefixes:
      - /stripit

---
apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: IngressRoute
metadata:
  name: ingressroute
spec:
# more fields...
  routes:
    # more fields...
    middlewares:
      - name: stripprefix

Available HTTP Middlewares

📄️ AddPrefix

Learn how to implement the HTTP AddPrefix middleware in Traefik Hub to update request paths before being forwarded.

📄️ API Key Authentication

Traefik Hub - API Key authentication middleware.

📄️ BasicAuth

The HTTP basic authentication (BasicAuth) middleware in Traefik Hub restricts access to Services to known users.

📄️ Buffering

The HTTP buffering middleware in Traefik Hub limits the size of requests that can be forwarded to Services.

📄️ Chain

The HTTP chain middleware lets you define reusable combinations of other middleware, to reuse the same groups.

📄️ CircuitBreaker

The HTTP circuit breaker prevents stacking requests to unhealthy Services, resulting in cascading failures.

📄️ Compress

The compress middleware lets you compress responses before sending them to the client.

📄️ ContentType

Traefik Hub's HTTP middleware automatically sets the `Content-Type` header value when it is not set by the backend.

📄️ DigestAuth

HTTP DigestAuth middleware restricts access to your services to known users.

📄️ Distributed RateLimit

HTTP RateLimit middleware ensures Services receive fair amounts of requests throughout your cluster and not only on an individual proxy

📄️ Error Pages

The Errors middleware returns custom pages according to configured ranges of HTTP Status codes.

📄️ ForwardAuth

The HTTP ForwardAuth middleware delegates authentication to an external Service.

📄️ GrpcWeb

GrpcWeb converts a gRPC Web requests to HTTP/2 gRPC requests.

📄️ Headers

The HTTP headers middleware manages the headers of requests and responses.

📄️ InFlightReq

The InFlightReq HTTP middleware lets you limit the number of simultaneous in-flight requests.

📄️ IPAllowList

Learn how to use IPAllowList in HTTP middleware for limiting clients to specific IPs.

📄️ JWT Authentication

Traefik Hub - Learn how to configure the JWT Authentication middleware for Ingress management.

📄️ OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Authentication

The OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Authentication middleware secures your applications using the client credentials flow

📄️ OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection Authentication

Traefik Hub - OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection allows to retrieve metadata about an access token from an OAuth 2.0 server.

📄️ OpenID Connect Authentication

Traefik Hub - The OIDC Authentication middleware secures your applications by delegating the authentication to an external provider.

📄️ PassTLSClientCert

The PassTLSClientCert adds selected data from passed client TLS certificates to headers.

📄️ RateLimit

HTTP RateLimit middleware ensures Services receive fair amounts of requests

📄️ RedirectRegex

RedirectRegex redirecting clients to different locations.

📄️ RedirectScheme

RedirectScheme redirects clients to different schemes/ports.

📄️ ReplacePath

ReplacePath updates paths before forwarding requests.

📄️ ReplacePathRegex

ReplacePathRegex updates paths before forwarding requests, using a regex.

📄️ Retry

Retry requests to a backend server until it succeeds.

📄️ StripPrefix

StripPrefix removes prefixes from paths before forwarding requests.

📄️ StripPrefixRegex

StripPrefixRegex removes prefixes from paths before forwarding requests, using regex. Read the technical documentation.

Community Middlewares

Please take a look at the community-contributed plugins in the plugin catalog.