forwarding requests

[Jon Paugh]

Hi,

For security reasons we need to place a server outside
the firewall and have another server inside the firewall.
We want the machine outside the firewall to receive
requests for our web application and forward them to our
ASP.NET web application on the machine inside the
firewall.

What would be a good way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Jon Paugh

 

[Guest]

Jon

When the server outside of the firewall receives a request, forward it on to the web server. Have the web server inside of the firewall make sure that the request came from that server (by checking the IP address, or other methods)

- David Coe, MCP

 

[Jon Paugh]

Ok... so how do I forward the request? Which buttons do I
push? Which dials do I turn?

I have received some more detailed answers and done some
research and there seems to be no way to forward a
request using straight out of the box IIS 5, so any
details are welcome.

-----Original Message-----
Jon -

When the server outside of the firewall receives a

request, forward it on to the web server. Have the web
server inside of the firewall make sure that the request
came from that server (by checking the IP address, or
other methods).

 

[Joerg Jooss]

Ok... so how do I forward the request? Which buttons do I
push? Which dials do I turn?

I have received some more detailed answers and done some
research and there seems to be no way to forward a
request using straight out of the box IIS 5, so any
details are welcome.

You need a proper reverse proxy such as ISA server, Apache (mod_proxy),
squid etc. IIS won't help here.

Cheers,