Needing some serious help :P

[Shamunda]

Yes, yes..  I need both a forware and reverse proxy.  Is nginx able to handle both rolls?

If so could you give me an example I can run with?

Thanks, 

Sham


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru on behalf of Merlin
Sent: Fri 1/30/2009 1:51 PM
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Subject: Re: Needing some serious help :P
 
NginX is a reverse proxy, and it sounds like you might want a forward proxy.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Shamunda <shamunda at playlan.com> wrote:

>  Hi All
>
> Ok here's my delima.  I have nginx acting as my reverse proxy, and a
> backend IIS server assigned with multiple addresses.
>
> nginx server address:
>
> 10.100.50.7
>
>
> IIS server Addresses:
>
> 10.100.50.1
> 10.100.50.2
> 10.100.50.3
>
>
> so everything coming in to 10.100.50.7 works fine and goes to the proper
> app server...However I also need the app server to make outbound connections
> as 10.100.50.7.
>
> so here's the map.
>
> user request page >  nginx forwards to server > iis processes request ....
> this works perfectly.
>
> However my application also needs to look up information from the users
> site without the user requesting it (security stuff)...
>
> so i need something like
>
> IIS app goes out to make request from 10.100.50.3  >  nginx needs to grab
> that identity and assign it the address of 10.100.50.7 >  user site accept
> request because 10.100.50.7 is a trusted IP.
>
>
> How can this be accomplished?  Right now all my request are being rejected
> but it's passing the information through the default gateway not through
> nginx.
>
> All help appreciated..
>
> -Shamunda
>
>
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