IIS as reverse proxy

iis reverse-proxy http-authentication
Tomas picture Tomas · Apr 6, 2009 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

I'm looking into to having IIS doing authentication in an application being executed on a J2EE server (JBoss). Is there any ways to have IIS work as reverse proxy and propagating the username and/or roles of the user the proxied application (JBoss). And also what IIS version would I need, if it's possible? I have license for IIS, so I'd like to do it in IIS, but otherwise I'd prefer open source.

Thanks!

Tomas

Answer

JohnW picture JohnW · Apr 6, 2009

It's not open source, but ApplicationRequestRouting for IIS 7.0 can act as a reverse proxy.

More Info: http://blogs.iis.net/wonyoo/archive/2008/07/09/application-request-routing-arr-as-a-reverse-proxy.aspx

Download: http://www.iis.net/extensions/ApplicationRequestRouting

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