Date parsed: 03/10/2007 00:18:59
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:18:59 -0000

Have you considered communicating server-to-server with ASP.net web
services and (for example) PHP with NuSOAP? You might be able to skip
the JavaScript altogether.

-Mike Placentra II


On Oct 2, 11:22 am, Jeff Dege <jd...@jdege.visi.com> wrote:
> We have an app that is written in C#/ASP.NET 2.0, and hosted on IIS.
>
> Or rather, it's mostly written in ASP.NET, but parts of it are client-
> side javascript, pulling data from an Apache webserver in an ajax-like
> fashion.
>
> There is no chance of converting the Apache pages to run on IIS, or the
> IIS pages to run on Apache, so we're inherently stuck with cross-domain
> XMLHttpRequest() calls.
>
> To this point, we've been running both IIS and Apache on different ports
> on the same servers, and have had no problem. But we are concerned that
> we will begin to see browsers that will reject calls to different ports.
> And beyond that, we'd really like to try hosting Apache on a separate
> box, better tuned for the sort of load that's being put on it.
>
> That means we need a Web Proxy. And one that will run on IIS, and that
> we can build, and maintain, with our current tool set (ASP.NET).
>
> Problem is I've not been able to find one. There are plenty of simple
> web proxies out there for Apache, and written in PHP, or CGI. But I've
> not found an example of a simple web proxy for IIS written in ASP.NET.
>
> I know people have had to have done this. But I've not been able to find
> anything on the web. Is there some simple solution I've missed?
>
> --
> The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They
> have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of
> government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their
> principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine
> for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times
> out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by
> looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage,
> and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
> - H. L. Mencken

Date parsed: 05/10/2007 19:40:31
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:31 -0000

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:22:53 +0000, Jeff Dege wrote:

> Problem is I've not been able to find one. There are plenty of simple
> web proxies out there for Apache, and written in PHP, or CGI. But I've
> not found an example of a simple web proxy for IIS written in ASP.NET.
>
> I know people have had to have done this. But I've not been able to
> find anything on the web. Is there some simple solution I've missed?

I found a discussion of proxying in IIS at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/08/01/
HOWTO_Common_URL_Red
irection_Techniques_for_IIS_Summary.aspx

It suggested a commercial package called ISAPI_Rewrite. I've tested it a
bit, and it seems to be working.

--
Want to understand why politicians do what they do? Simple: when you're
a big, gray, greasy rat, walking around on two hind legs, you have a
lot to gain by turning the world into a garbage heap.
-- Memoirs of Lucille G. Kropotkin