Jonas Nordstr?m wrote about "external access to intranet":
> Hello,
>
> In our organisation, we wanted the employees to be able to reach our
> intranet from anywhere on the internet. We have therefore made a gateway
> using an extra linux-server, SSL, Apache and mod-perl. We wanted to
> translate the incoming URL request, for example
> https://gateway_server/intranet_host/filename.html
> to an intranet request, in this case http://intranet_host/filename.html. We
> then fetch that file using HTTP::UserAgent, massage the links if it is a
> HTML file using HTML::Filter and send the response back to the client. This
> works fine, but is HTML::Filter the best way to go? Would it be easier using
> HTML::TreeBuilder or something else?
> I would be grateful for any input.
There a nice module for this already - Apache::RewritingProxy. I use a
modified version of it with great success.
Vladimir
