Folks, hypothetical scenario-

User connects to website 1 over the Internet using https
User then needs to connect to Internet Website 2 over https
Website 2 has been locked down to only allow access from the Website 1
Internet valid IP address. Traffic direct from user to Website 2 will be
dropped

Does anyone know if it is possible to reverse proxy this request so that the
user still remains connected to Website 1 but the content they see comes from
Website 2? Source OS is Win2K IIS5.0. What makes things more complicated is
that the client will be using https to connect to the initial website and
then need to use https to get to the third-party web site too. My initial
thought is that there's absolutely no way to do this [without writing my own
ISAPI filter] but I need to rule this out as a viable solution to bring to
the table.

Any thoughts would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Steve

Re: Reverse proxying IIS by Chris

Chris
Wed Oct 12 21:20:45 CDT 2005

I would look into running ISA server as the front end server - it may be
your best bet out of the box.

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx

Also check out http://www.isa2004training.com/ for free training on ISA
server.

Chris



"SteveC" <SteveC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Folks, hypothetical scenario-
>
> User connects to website 1 over the Internet using https
> User then needs to connect to Internet Website 2 over https
> Website 2 has been locked down to only allow access from the Website 1
> Internet valid IP address. Traffic direct from user to Website 2 will be
> dropped
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to reverse proxy this request so that
> the
> user still remains connected to Website 1 but the content they see comes
> from
> Website 2? Source OS is Win2K IIS5.0. What makes things more complicated
> is
> that the client will be using https to connect to the initial website and
> then need to use https to get to the third-party web site too. My initial
> thought is that there's absolutely no way to do this [without writing my
> own
> ISAPI filter] but I need to rule this out as a viable solution to bring to
> the table.
>
> Any thoughts would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>