IIS Reverse Proxy

[A.M]

Hi,



We are developing ADP.NET applications and one of our requirements is
implementing a Reverse Proxy on IIS.



I have couple of questions about Reverse Proxy:



Question 1) my understanding is IIS6 (and also IIS5) doesn't have reverse
proxy capability and the only reverse proxy solution in Microsoft products
is ISA server. Am I correct?



Question 2) I don't want to use ISA (Extra server in the DMZ) I rather IIS
itself do the reverse proxy. Could anyone refer me to a link or article
about best practices/3rd party products for IIS reverse proxy? Does anyone
have successful experience doing that?



Any help would be appreciated,

Ali

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Question 1) my understanding is IIS6 (and also IIS5) doesn't have reverse

proxy capability and the only reverse proxy solution in Microsoft products
is ISA server. Am I correct?
Yup.

Question 2) I don't want to use ISA (Extra server in the DMZ) I rather IIS
itself do the reverse proxy. Could anyone refer me to a link or article
about best practices/3rd party products for IIS reverse proxy? Does anyone
have successful experience doing that?

Um, answered in the first answer. IIS does not do reverse proxy.
That's a proxy server job. If you choose to not use ISA, you'll need
to find another proxy system to do it. There are dozens, maybe
hundreds, and Google will get you strated.

Jeff

 

[A.M]

Thanks Jeff for help.

There are some reverse proxy products i found them through Google{Reverse
Proxy IIS}. I am wondring which one is relible.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Thanks Jeff for help.

There are some reverse proxy products i found them through Google{Reverse
Proxy IIS}. I am wondring which one is relible.

I'm not that familiar with any outside of ISA(or Proxy2), but I might
be tempted to run an Apache box with mod_proxy, if you're familiar
with that platform. The cost is right, and it wasn't that hard to
configure as I recall.

Jeff