From: Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg) (rdawesdeloitte.co.za)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 10:51:23 CDT

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Squid does a pretty good reverse proxy, which can do what you are looking
for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Thompson [mailto:deansubev1.net]
> Sent: 27 May 2003 04:47 PM
> To: webappsecsecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Reverse Proxy Server?
>
>
> I hope this is the right place to post this...
>
> We develop numerous internal web applications that we
> occasionally need to
> publish to customers. In very sensitive scenarios, we will
> force them to
> use a VPN to connect. In others, we just publish a
> server/app beyond the
> firewall. I would like to see a solution that could handle
> both scenarios
> easily, and would not require that I put multiple servers or
> apps outside
> the firewall.
>
> My thoughts were to use something like what Anonymizer
> (http://www.anonymizer.com) does. Essentially, it just
> forwards requests
> for you, and returns the information to you. So, if someone
> out there went
> to http://mydomain.com and logged in, they could then go to
> http://mydomain.com?server=someserver (or something like that). Does
> anyone out there know of a tool like this that is already
> available? I
> would prefer a Windows platform, but 'nix is acceptable.
>
> Thanks,
> Dean
>

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