Lancashire, Pete wrote:
If the host, inside, the one that is being hidden has a href that has a local reference, the proxy seems to fail.
The proxy isn't failing, your html is wrong.
for example I have the file foo.html ------------------------------------------------------ <html><head></head><body> This is /foo.html click <a href="bar.html">here</a> to go to bar.html <br> click <a href="http://inside/bar.html";>here</a> to go to http://inside/bar.html <br> click <a href="http://inside.domain.xyz/bar.html";>here</a> to go to http://inside.domain.xyz/bar.html </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------------
The first href will get the correct reverse proxy, the others will not, returning the hostname that is in the href to the user.
Correct.
Keep fully qualified website links out of your pages. Proxy does not (and cannot) parse your HTML for you. Putting hardcoded URLs in pages makes websites difficult to maintain anyway.
As a general rule, relative links (blah.html) will always work, and are the most recommended. Absolute links (/dir/blah.html) will only work if you keep your URL space the same on the front and the back (which is good practice anyway). Hardcoded links (http://inside/dir/blah.html) will only ever work on that server, and are unmaintainable whether you use a proxy or not.
To my knowledge, MS Proxy server is likely to have the same problem.
Regards,
Graham
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