Re: Squid Alternative?

Devon Harding wrote:
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> On 7/9/07, *Les Mikesell* <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx >> wrote:
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>     Devon Harding wrote:
>      > I'm looking for a redirector like Squid for incoming access based on
>      > host name.  I normally use xinet.d, but that only has a one to one
>      > mapping. I would like the redirector route traffic based on the host
>      > name of the target.
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>     You can only do this for http, where the host name is passed in a header
>     from the client.  Apache can do it if you create named virtual hosts
>     that use the ProxyPass directive or a RewriteRule with the [P] flag to
>     proxy the requests to a backend server.  You'll also need a
>     ProxyPassReverse directive configured to fix redirects issued by the end
>     server.
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> Maybe thats what I need to do, as I need for the same server doing the
> proxying to accept http request as well

Yes, apache can sort this out itself.  If anything else accepts port 80
you'd have to also have a special case to redirect even the local host,
perhaps to apache on an alternate port.

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