[Web4lib] Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases

[carlos lopez]

Hi folks

We're currently using EZProxy for user authentication and connection to offsite databases for our 
remote users. It's worked well for us so far, except that it seems to use a set of . . . exotic 
ports to serve the proxied sites. This is a problem for some of our users, especially behind large 
corporate or government firewalls.

Is anyone using Apache to perform a similar function (but using port 80 exclusively)? I'm sure I 
could set up Squid to do the same thing, but our current hardware may not be able to cope well with 
that much more strain.

c.
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Carlos Lopez
Assistant Cataloguer
The Dalton McCaughey Library
1 Morrison Close
Parkville, Vic. 3052
Australia
Ph:   +61 3 93408885
Fax: +61 3 93408889
www.dml.vic.edu.au