Hello Niclas! I've been poking around and experimenting with the Application Request Routing release, and it looks like it can handle both of your requests without much hassle. The ARR can either handle URL Rewrite-based application routing rules (which includes support for checking and parsing cookies...

Is there an easy way to configure Forms Authentication to be passed to the farm servers, the idea is to have the authentication happen at one server and another server will be access with those credentials, our application uses forms authentication, and when we hit another server directly on the farm...

I was trying to simplify the explanation of our system. We have a load balanced system of two reverse proxy servers with a dfs replication system between them on the "url rewrite" web.config rules. Every time that we change a IP based rule on one server (RP1) the other one (RP2) will pick the...

We install Microsoft Application Request Routing on a server and we are using it as a reverse proxy server. All the url rewrite rules work, if we update the rule set with new rules everything still works but if we introduce or modify any rule that contains any IP condition and use REMOTE_ADDR as a variable...

Thanks for the reply! Here are the current rules. The top-most rule should be invoked for the host name WEBAPPUAT with conditions for specific applications. Using a wildard rule, I tried to qualify the hostname with *webappuat* or http://webappuat *, but this did not work. -Alan Levine <rewrite>...

Here is the scenario. We have ARR receiving requests for 2 distinct hostnames. We'll call then http://WEBAPP1 and http://WEBAPP2 . Both host names have the same IP and resolve to the same ARR server. WEBAPP1 and WEBAPP2 have 2 servers behind them. In ARR I have 4 web farms. WEBAPP1A WEBAPP1B WEBAPP2A...