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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com>
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Subject: Re: http(s) request based forwarding ?
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* Erik de Zeeuw <erik@usishealth.com> [000218 14:18] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We're having an NT web application server, and we're about
> to convert it to FreeBSD.
> 

..

> 
> I was wondering if there is some kind of proxy that can analyse
> the http(s) requests that comes in, and forward them to the
> appropriate server.
> 
> We have a FreeBSD firewall in front of the two machines, so it
> might be the place to install such a software.
> 
> I thought about installing Apache on the firewall, with mod_rewrite
> on, but this may not be the ultimate solution.
> 
> Any advices and experience on this are welcome :)

One more thing, make apache's 404 instead redirect to the same url on
the NT server, it's kinda ugly but it'll make the NT server serve
all genuine 404s and catch missing applications.

 :)

-Alfred


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