Re: [cobalt-users] reverse proxy on virtural host raq xtr

[Josh Kuperman <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:59:32PM +0300, Oleg Volkov wrote:
> Sorry to bother list with this question 
> but what do you meen "reverse" proxy ? 

Basically, instead of proxying people on the inside and controlling
what they can get reach on the outside, you are setting it up to look
like a web page (by presenting your local web set) and handle requests
from the outside. 

Also, called "rewritting proxy" - though that term is more correct for
any proxy that can rewrite or transform a url to another url - and
other things. Ths traditional method for squid is to move Apache off
of port 80 and run Squid on port 80. The rewriting aspects are already
available in the Apache that came with my RaQ. However, the effect of
this would be that someone entering http://proxy.mydomain.com would
have their requests handled by the proxy, allowing them access (after
they're authenticated) to resources designed only to be available from
the local network (invisible to the outside, but visible to the proxy)
or the proxy's ip address (a standard method for colleges to use with
database publishers for providing system wide resources)..

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Josh Kuperman                       
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