# Re: Specifying a Proxied URL on the CERN Server

Daniel O'Callaghan (danny@miriworld.its.unimelb.EDU.AU)
Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:32:49 +0100

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    Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:32:49 +0100

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    From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@miriworld.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>

    To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>

    Subject: Re: Specifying a Proxied URL on the CERN Server

On Tue, 6 Dec 1994, John C. Mallery wrote:

> We need to use the CERN server to provide a proxy service to the world for
> another server behind it running database code.
>
> To achieve this, we need to give the world a URL that will reach through the
> proxy cache on the cern server to the backend server.
>
> There are two ways to do this that come to mind:
>
> 1. Install redirects on the CERN server that reference the backend host via
> 2. Write a script to convert an external reference on the CERN server into a
> Absolutely ANY workable suggestions on either of these approaches would be
> most gratefully appreciated, especially if it arrived by 13:00 GMT.
>
> We need to make this work by 17:00 GMT so that we can proxy cache some search
> URLs.

I'm probably too late, but here is another suggestion, assuming that the
proxy server has access to both world and db server, but world has no
access to db server.

Get fwtk-1.2.tar.gz (or similar) from ftp.tis.com

Build and install the plug-gw module on your proxy server, to run on say
port 8001, to plug into port 80 of the db server. Then, anyone who
connects to port proxy.ai.mit.edu:8001 will be transparently connected to
db.ai.mit.edu:80
Danny

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