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Article #405Re: Using a URL redirector with squid
From: Gerardo Gregory
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:44
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 news:ET8w6.9586$bd2.295138@news.chello.be... > 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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