[Web4lib] Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases

[Ross Singer]

EZProxy supports a wildcard hostname that allows you direct all
traffic over ports 80 and 443 by prepending all of the host/port
information on the front of your URL:

http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/cfg/proxybyhostname.html

-Ross.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:43 PM, carlos lopez <carlos at dml.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 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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