need suggestions for reverse proxy

[Haim Ashkenazi]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:18:22 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:

>> I'm looking for a reverse proxy for https to protect
>> an IIS server. at the
>> moment I'm using "pound" but then the IIS doesn't
>> recognize where the
>> original request came from so I can't do things like
>> allow,deny from a
>> certain IP or use awstats. It should be able to deal
>> with sessions and
>> load balancing (although at the moment I only have
> 
> You may try squid, although I doubt that squid works
> with https in your setup. Squid needs to know the
> private keys in order to decrypt the session-info so
> it can be session-aware. One way to deal with this is
> to let squid decrypt and pass it on to IIS as
> cleartext. Squid is capable of removing unwanted
> URL's.
> 
> But statefull loadbalancing may not be squids
> strength.
well, I'll test it and see how it works...

> 
> We are using LVS (Linux Virtual Server). Although I
> would have preferred a BSD-solution, nothing beats LVS
> in terms of scalability. Had an old 486 with 64 MB
> RAM, which could handle more than 10.000 unique
> visitors a day.
how would it help me? the web server has to sit on IIS.

thanx
-- 
Haim