Re: Web server request redirection
| From: | David Otton | Date: | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:30:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Web server request redirection | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:10:34 +0100, you wrote:
>Ray Hunter wrote:
>They are two:
>1/ php+apache/linux webserver (reachable from outside)
>2/ iis/w2k running web service (behind firewall)
>
> > You can also create scripts that receive post data and then submit that
> > data to another server via php or other scripting language.
>
>Yeah, that's what I was asking for: how?
>I can simply catch the outer request via $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA but don't
>know, how most effeciently process the result coming from windows machine.
I would suggest configuring Apache as an HTTP proxy, rather than trying
to redirect requests with PHP scripts.
More details here
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/ApacheProxy/page1.html
With some forethought, you can probably use this to protect your IIS
machine from malicious requests, too.