RE: Reverse Proxy Server?

["Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg)" <rdawes () deloitte co za>]

Squid does a pretty good reverse proxy, which can do what you are looking
for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Thompson [mailto:deansub () ev1 net] 
> Sent: 27 May 2003 04:47 PM
> To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> Subject: Reverse Proxy Server?
>
>
> I hope this is the right place to post this...
>
> We develop numerous internal web applications that we 
> occasionally need to 
> publish to customers.  In very sensitive scenarios, we will 
> force them to 
> use a VPN to connect.  In others, we just publish a 
> server/app beyond the 
> firewall.  I would like to see a solution that could handle 
> both scenarios 
> easily, and would not require that I put multiple servers or 
> apps outside 
> the firewall.
>
> My thoughts were to use something like what Anonymizer 
> (http://www.anonymizer.com) does.  Essentially, it just 
> forwards requests 
> for you, and returns the information to you.  So, if someone 
> out there went 
> to http://mydomain.com and logged in, they could then go to 
> http://mydomain.com?server=someserver (or something like that).  Does 
> anyone out there know of a tool like this that is already 
> available?  I 
> would prefer a Windows platform, but 'nix is acceptable.
>
> Thanks,
> Dean

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