I tried this. It is a forking proxy and quikly runs out of steam and by
the way the url is now www.fwtk.org.
"Wu, Gordon" wrote:
>
> For multiple intranet hosts,
> my understanding the best way
> to do it is to install a TIS proxy server on you linux
> box --- with nothing to do with apache/modperl.
>
> see the http://www.tis.com/ for details.
>
> let me know if it works for you, pls.
>
> Gordon Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> System Infrastructure
> Global Derivatives Application Development
> CitiBank, New York
> Tel: (212)783-6838
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonas Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:35 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: external access to intranet
> >
> >
> > Ok, but the problem is that we have more than one intranet
> > host, and files
> > at one host may call another and so on.
> > If I've understood it correctly, ProxyPass requires you to
> > have the same
> > number of external servers and internal servers? Can
> > Apache::RewritingProxy
> > handle this?
> >
> > /Jonas
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: darren chamberlain [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: den 5 april 2000 16:30
> > > To: Jonas Nordstrom
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: external access to intranet
> > >
> > > Jonas Nordstrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this
> > > effect:
> > > > But doesn't that only pass on the request and then return
> > the HTML-files
> > > > unchanged? I also want to change the links inside the
> > HTML-bodies on the
> > > > fly, so that the users can continue to "surf the
> > intranet". For example,
> > > if
> > > > the HTML contains "<A HREF="path/my_file.html">" I want
> > to change that
> > > to
> > > > "<A HREF="https://gateway_server/intranet_host/path/myfile.html>"
> > > >
> > > > /Jonas
> > >
> > > Hi Jonas,
> > >
> > > ProxyPass does *not* modify the contents of the file (in
> > fact, the docs
> > > say
> > > that it might not be all that useful for exactly this
> > reason). The thing
> > > is,
> > > though, that the links, if relative, will be relative to
> > the current page,
> > > wherever that current page is. If your links are all in the form
> > > <a href="../foo.html"> and <a href="./bar/baz.html"> then
> > all links will
> > > work just fine (this is a good idea anyway, although difficult to do
> > > consistently).
> > >
> > > Assuming that you don't want to rewrite the pages on your
> > intranet to fix
> > > all your links (which is the point of this whole thing, I
> > would assume),
> > > then
> > > the best way to do it, I would say, would be write a
> > translation handler
> > > that
> > > would use LWP to fetch the document from the intranet
> > server (possibly
> > > with
> > > some caching), pass it through a regex that fixes the links
> > (i.e., preface
> > > all
> > > links with 'http://gateway_server/intranet_host/' unless
> > they begin with
> > > http),
> > > and then send it to the browser. This is similar to the
> > proxy module that
> > > is
> > > described in Chapter 7 of the Eagle book (p 374-381, or
> > > http://www.modperl.com/book/chapters/ch7.html).
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > darren
> > >
> > > --
> > > Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
> >
