On 9/5/05, OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i've two boxes: > > www.boxA.com > www.boxB.com > > they are on different 'real' IPs on different subnets. > > boxA has an Apache server, listening on port 80 as www.boxA.com, that i > neither > control nor can configure ... > > boxB runs an Apache server, listening on port XXXX as www2.boxB.com:xxxx, that > i fully control. > > > i've set up a PAGE REDIRECT at www.boxA.com/index.html that points to > http://www.boxB.com:xxxx/index.html. > > i'd like to RESTRICT ACCESS to boxB to ONLY those visitors that come from/thru > the www.boxA.com redirction ... i.e., direct connects to > <http://www.boxB.com:xxxx/index.html> would be rejected. > > also, i'd like to 'hide' the www.boxB.com:xxxx url/port from the average user > ... displaying only the www.boxA.com 'identity'. > > is this (1) possible, and (2) something that i should best control/restrict in > Apache's config or .htaccess, or in html/php/etc/page source?
This can't be done without control of boxA's config. If you had control of boxA, you'd simply set up a reverse proxy (see http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies ). Barring that, you are out of luck. Each connection looks completely independent, regardless of where someone was linked from. The only indication is the Referer HTTP request header, but this is trivially forged and therefore can't be used for any real security. And there is no way to lie about the origin of a page by hiding the URL unless you control the site that would be used in the URL-bar. Otherwise, the web would be completely insecure because anyone could claim to be www.whitehouse.gov. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
