On Wednesday 2012-10-03 15:23, Colin 't Hart wrote: >Hi, > >Has anyone here used netfilter to make an Application Level Gateway for HTTP? > >What I'm looking for is an "HTTP router" or "HTTP reverse proxy" that >can route requests for resources received via HTTP to the appropriate >(internal) web server. > >We develop and host applications for our clients and such an HTTP >router would simply admin for us significantly. > > >While I can install an HTTP reverse proxy server, I don't need any of >the other features that such a server would provide, purely the >routing part, so I thought that netfilter should be able to do the >job. > >In particular, could string matching be used to achieve this? No, because iptables is not operating at the application layer. tinyproxy, squid, apache mod_proxy, ... enough possibilites of actual application layer gateways. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
