[Xitami] Redirecting an URL to another port

Ewen McNeill xitami@lists.xitami.org
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:08:08 +1200


In message <3B73F6A5.12586.625216F@localhost>, "Becky R. Izen - MSSP" writes:
>How would I redirect a request for a specific page (for example, 
>default.ida) to another port (such as 4080)?

Intelligent front end proxy?

Certainly for CodeRed you can't hope to send it a redirect! 

About the only other thing I could think of is that you could run a
LRWP, filter, etc, that received the request on port 80 (which is where
it WILL be made), and then made another connectin to port 4080 on your
machine, and then returned the result of that.

I can't for the life of me think of why you'd want to waste resources
doing that.

FWIW, I do know that some ISPs are using their intelligent transparent
proxies to either block the CodeRed requests, or direct them somewhere
other than their webservers.  But those things tend to be Rather
Expensive (tm).

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com