Re: Reverse proxy ??

["Steven Osman" <sosman () terratron com>]

Personally, I use Apache as my reverse proxy.

It is extremely easy to set up and appears to work just fine.  On the other
hand, I haven't used the environment (yet) with complex CGI/applications at
one of the web servers (I have used it to access java servlets, but nothing
fancy), so I can't vouch for any one implementation's ability to correctly
forward all relevant data.

Steven Osman
Terratron Technologies, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Anich <sjanich () mke ab com>
To: <sosman () terratron com>
Cc: <sand232 () yahoo com>; <firewall-wizards () lists nfr net>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: Reverse proxy ??


> What Reverse Proxy software do you use? MS, Netscape, or????
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --steve
>
> > Reverse proxy is, as the name suggests, similar to "proxying backwards".
> >
> > Rather than have a bunch of clients funnel into one proxy server, you
would
> > actually have a bunch of servers funnel into one proxy server.
> >
> > Consider an environment where you have 10 web servers handling critical
> > data.  You can put all these servers behind a firewall, so that your
> > critical data remains secure.  You then create a reverse proxy server
which
> > handles all the requests, and depending on the path the request is then
> > forwarded to one of the actual web servers.  Further, your web servers
don't
> > need to have routable IP addresses this way -- just one for the proxy.
> >
> > In this way, your proxy server would:
> >
> > take requests for http://www/dir1/ and forward the requests to server 1
> > take requests for http://www/dir2/ and forward them to server 2,
> > and so on.
> >
> > The web servers could have very tight access control and handle requests
> > ONLY from the proxy server.
> >
> > Other interesting scenarios are possible.  Consider
> >
> > http://www/ny/ which forwards requests to the NY based-web server.
> > and
> > http://www/ca/ which forwards requests to the CA based server.
> >
> > I've also used reverse proxy to allow several web servers' requests to
be
> > handled by 1 IP address.
> >
> > Steven Osman
> > Terratron Technologies Inc.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sandy Green <sand232 () yahoo com>
> > To: <firewall-wizards () lists nfr net>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 7:27 PM
> > Subject: Reverse proxy ??
> >
> >
> > > There was a quetion here in this list about MS Proxy
> > > server with one or two NIC cards. In that context it
> > > was highlighted that with one NIC card "reverse
> > > proxy" will not be possible.
> > >
> > > But can someone explain as to what is reverse proxy ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> --
> Steve Anich
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