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  • 06-22-2008, 9:47 PM

    Reverse Proxy

    Is it possible in IIS to do some sort of pseudo reverse proxy?

    For example, http://www.site.com is visible to the internet, but http://hidden.site.com is not. However the hidden.site.com is on the same network as the www.site.com (ie. lets say its an intranet site).

    Is there any way of exposing that http://hidden.site.com as say http://www.site.com/hidden/ ?

    I am not looking for a redirection, I want www.site.com/hidden to be showing exactly the same as hidden.site.com.

    I can't make it a virtual directory, there is no method of file sharing I can do this with by means of UNC paths.

    Thanks.

    -Alan

  • 06-22-2008, 11:47 PM In reply to

    Re: Reverse Proxy

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  • 06-22-2008, 11:58 PM In reply to

    Re: Reverse Proxy

    Are there any free ones?

    The proxy function in that one only comes with the paid version.

  • 06-23-2008, 12:01 AM In reply to

    Re: Reverse Proxy

    I'm not aware of any free ones.  The isapiwrite.com offers a trial period. 

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  • 06-23-2008, 8:10 AM In reply to

    • tomkmvp
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    Re: Reverse Proxy

    I'm not even sure isapirewrite will do what you want.  The problem is accessing the content from the first box - the way to do it would through UNC but you say that's not possible.

  • 06-23-2008, 8:23 AM In reply to

    Re: Reverse Proxy

    All it needs to do, is act exactly like phproxy and CGIproxy. However neither of those two scripts actually render the pages correctly hence I wanted something more direct.

  • 06-23-2008, 9:39 AM In reply to

    • tomkmvp
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    Re: Reverse Proxy

    I'm not familiar with either of those, but do you know ASP.NET?  I guess you could write some code that reads the pages on the second server and response.writes them to your client.

  • 06-23-2008, 9:52 AM In reply to

    Re: Reverse Proxy

    The way isapi-rewrite proxy points to content on a separate server, or that is how we implemented it.  The content isn't accessed by a UNC path.  Our particular implementation uses a vdir however, I guess this could be a root level website.  Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to suggest.  I'm not familar enough with the two products mentioned.

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