HTTP Middlewares Overview

Overview of all available HTTP middlewares in Traefik Proxy for controlling connections and modifying requests.

HTTP Middlewares

Controlling connections

Configuration Example

Docker & Swarm

# As a Docker Label
whoami:
  # A container that exposes an API to show its IP address
  image: traefik/whoami
  labels:
    # Create a middleware named `foo-add-prefix`
    - "traefik.http.middlewares.foo-add-prefix.addprefix.prefix=/foo"
    # Apply the middleware named `foo-add-prefix` to the router named `router1`
    - "traefik.http.routers.router1.middlewares=foo-add-prefix@docker"

Available HTTP Middlewares

Middleware	Purpose	Area
Authentication	BasicAuth, DigestAuth, ForwardAuth	Security, Authentication
Headers	Adds/Updates headers	Security
RateLimit	Limits call frequency	Security, Request lifecycle
RedirectScheme	Redirects based on scheme	Request lifecycle
StripPrefix	Removes path prefixes	Path Modifier
Compress	Compresses responses	Content Modifier
CircuitBreaker	Prevents calling unhealthy services	Request Lifecycle

Community Middlewares

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