Re: Need recomendations for https proxy that serves as a firewall proxy
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 11:01, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunatelly there are not much free HTTP Application Level Gateways (reverse
> proxies) out there which do good filtering. (And I am not sure if there are non-free
> which are good, either:). Some are listed on:
>
> http://www.freefire.org/tools/index.en.php3
>
[...]
For a simple reverse proxy (with load balancing), try pound. From the
webpage [http://www.apsis.ch/pound/]:
"The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end
for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load
among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for
those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed
under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away."
Last I looked, pound was available as a debian package in sid.
However, for virtual hosting across multiple back-end machines with
authentication at the firewall, I found apache2 + mod_ssl + mod_proxy
more suitable. Moreover, pound does not provide caching for
acceleration, nor ssl on the back channel.
...Murray
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