Your feedback made me step back and rethink the issue. I have decided to pursue tunneling the connection through the HTTP proxy. Thank you for your time and feedback. Best regards, Nick On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 08:26 +0200, Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV wrote: > I would tend to think that Apache is not suited for your purpose. Once upon a time, there was a little firewall utility called TIS Firewall Toolkit (FWTK) http://www.fwtk.org/fwtk/docs/admin_guide.pdf that probably does what you want. You may be particularly interested in PLUG-GW. > > -ascs > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Gianakas [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:57 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] Inbound, Non-HTTP Proxy > > First off, thanks for an excellent server! > > I wonder if anyone can point me in a direction. > I read through the modules on httpd.apache.org and did some cursory Googling to no avail. > > I'm running a software server which is publicly available on the web (application service provider model). It's a more-or-less typical server that listens for and communicates (bidirectionally and > asynchronously) with clients. > > I use Apache for the web server and this custom server for the application (currently Java, may be C/C++ in the future). > Everything works great. > > I noticed that users who are behind a corporate firewall which only allows HTTP outbound connections cannot connect to the software server (which listens on its own ports). > > So I'd like to be able to use Apache to act as a proxy for connections to this backend server so clients can (hopefully) get past their firewall. > Basically, when a connection arrives, Apache somehow determines if the connection is for the backend server (perhaps via a GET for a particular URL or perhaps a custom request like WOY (instead of GET/POST/etc) ) and then somehow relays the connection and/or the data to the backend server. The backend server maintains a persistent connection with the clients. That is, it's not a strict one-time request-respond-close connection. I suppose it's more like HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, but the client and server communicate asynchronously--very much like a chat server. > > I saw the proxy module but it's designed for web protocols (HTTP and possibly FTP). > > I appreciate any help/suggestions/pointers. > > Best regards, > Nick > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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