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Re: Using a URL redirector with squid

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From: Gerardo Gregory
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:44
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Just out of curiosity .....why the hell are you running IIS?????ans MS
proxy?????,,,,,,,,I will pray for u.
"Filip Sneppe" <Filip.Sneppe@nospam.chello.be> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am looking into the possibility of using Squid in combination with a URL
> redirector in front of a number of IIS servers with private IP addresses.
>
> Our current setup is based on an MS 2.0 Proxy that is publishing a number
of
> websites to the internet, and is also serving as a proxy server to the
> internal LAN.
>
> We will soon be moving the webservers to a DMZ protected by a 2.4/iptables
> linux box. However, because of a lack of internet IP addresses, many
> websites will still be *virtually* housed on the same IP address (ie. the
> address of the firewall). Hence I find myself in need of a reverse proxy
> capable of interpreting HTTP host headers and proxying traffic to various
> protected 172.16.0.0 servers accordingly.
>
> The following web page mentions a number of URL redirectors for Squid,
some
> of which appear to be very interesting (other seem to be aimed at content
> blocking, which is not what I'm after):
>
> http://mail.linuxmall.com/squid/related-software.html
>
> My questions are:
>
> - Do you have any experience with any of these, any preferences ? I am
> particularly interested in Squirm, JesRed, or Squidgard. (Note that
Security
> & speed are major concerns - hence I don't think that a perl script based
> redirector-1.1 will be up for the job). Which one do you prefer ?
> - I don't intend to do any actual caching since there are no performance
> problems on the webservers, only a shortage of IP addresses. Should I
> reconsider ?
> - Proxying of HTTPS requests must be possible.
> - The firewall will probably not be used as a regular proxy server for the
> internal LAN. However, if I wanted to do this in the future, is it
possible
> to combine the publishing feature (this is MS Proxy 2.0/ISA server
> terminology) with regular proxying for the LAN ?
> - Would it be a smart move to run two copies of squid on a host: a regular
> proxy for the LAN and a reverse proxy for the webservers ?
> - Are there any non Squid-based options I should consider ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Filip
>
>
>
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