Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2009, at 19:24, FRLinux wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
>>> What are people using as web proxy servers? I've used pound in the
>>> past, but
>>> have been hearing good reports of haproxy. My particular purpose is
>>> to proxy
>>> requests from the world to a cluster of web servers, as against using a
>>> proxy like squid for a number of clients (I gather squid can also do
>>> what I
>>> want though I've never used it in that way).
>>>> To clarify, you are talking about reverse proxies, right?
>> I am talking about a box which will be the public IP of a web service
> / site / application. Behind it there will be n web / application
> servers. The proxy server will accept requests from the world, and
> distribute them to the servers. So, it's a load balancing proxy I'm
> looking for. Whether that's forward or reverse I'm sure I don't know :-)
>>> Niall
>I've been using Squid for this very purpose for the past few years and
it is working extremely well. I also use it for filtering some incoming
requests. e.g. by user agents.
http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/Reverse_Proxy_with_Squidhttp://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/Blocking_Bots_with_Squid
Hope this helps,
Robert
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