This function is called when a callback gives abort or no result. It simply sets a flag that will be used for logging the reason of the proxy's ending.

This function is called during proxy startup. It sets the attributes of the proxy instance according to the configuration of the proxy.

This function is called to establish the server-side connection. The function either connects a proxy to the destination server, or an embedded proxy to its parent proxy. The proxy may set the address of the destination server using the setServerAddress function.

The connectServer function calls the chainer specified in the service definition to connect to the remote server using the host name and port parameters.

The connectServer function returns the descriptor of the server-side data stream.

The proxy instance calls this function to retrieve authentication credentials for authentication method method and the target user username.

This function is called when invalid policy function has been called.

The proxy instance calls this function to set the address of the destination server. This function attempts to resolve the hostname of the server using the DNS; the result is stored in the session.server_address parameter. The address of the server may be modified later by the router of the service. See Section 5.12, Module Router for details.

The proxy instance calls this function to indicate that the inband authentication was successfully performed. The name of the client is stored in the entity parameter.