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carlos lopez | 7 Jul 05:39

Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases

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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Carlos Lopez
Assistant Cataloguer
The Dalton McCaughey Library
1 Morrison Close
Parkville, Vic. 3052
Australia
Ph:   +61 3 93408885
Fax: +61 3 93408889
www.dml.vic.edu.au

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Ross Singer | 7 Jul 15:52

Re: Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases

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@...> 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.
> --
> ___________________
>
> Carlos Lopez
> Assistant Cataloguer
> The Dalton McCaughey Library
> 1 Morrison Close
> Parkville, Vic. 3052

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Andrew Ashton | 7 Jul 16:02

RE: Reverse proxying for offsite (subscription) databases


There is an Ezproxy listserv (ezproxy@...), which is fairly
active and chock full o' good advice for setting up proxy-via-hostname.
The only catch that I ran into was setting it up to run on port 80 on a
server where we already had Apache running a web site on port 80.  TO
make it work you need to give Ezproxy its own IP address, which gets a
little complicated.  The alternative, which we chose, was to run proxy
by hostname on port 2048.  You still have to deal with one nonstandard
port, but it is far preferable to having to support a separate port for
every host you proxy in proxy-by-port.

--
Andrew Ashton
Systems Librarian
Scribner Library, Skidmore College
(518)580-5505

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databases

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:

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