Ok, but the problem is that we have more than one intranet host, and files
at one host may call another and so on.
If I've understood it correctly, ProxyPass requires you to have the same
number of external servers and internal servers? Can Apache::RewritingProxy
handle this?
/Jonas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: darren chamberlain [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: den 5 april 2000 16:30
> To: Jonas Nordström
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: external access to intranet
>
> Jonas Nordström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this
> effect:
> > But doesn't that only pass on the request and then return the HTML-files
> > unchanged? I also want to change the links inside the HTML-bodies on the
> > fly, so that the users can continue to "surf the intranet". For example,
> if
> > the HTML contains "<A HREF="path/my_file.html">" I want to change that
> to
> > "<A HREF="https://gateway_server/intranet_host/path/myfile.html>"
> >
> > /Jonas
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
> ProxyPass does *not* modify the contents of the file (in fact, the docs
> say
> that it might not be all that useful for exactly this reason). The thing
> is,
> though, that the links, if relative, will be relative to the current page,
> wherever that current page is. If your links are all in the form
> <a href="../foo.html"> and <a href="./bar/baz.html"> then all links will
> work just fine (this is a good idea anyway, although difficult to do
> consistently).
>
> Assuming that you don't want to rewrite the pages on your intranet to fix
> all your links (which is the point of this whole thing, I would assume),
> then
> the best way to do it, I would say, would be write a translation handler
> that
> would use LWP to fetch the document from the intranet server (possibly
> with
> some caching), pass it through a regex that fixes the links (i.e., preface
> all
> links with 'http://gateway_server/intranet_host/' unless they begin with
> http),
> and then send it to the browser. This is similar to the proxy module that
> is
> described in Chapter 7 of the Eagle book (p 374-381, or
> http://www.modperl.com/book/chapters/ch7.html).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> darren
>
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