Hi Ira!
I hope I understand the problem correctly. Why not write a CGI script in
Perl/Python/whatever that will fetch the pages (based on the PATH_INFO and
CGI parameters), process them by translating all the relevant URLs and
display it to the user?
A bit more work than using the Apache built-in modules, but still doable.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 27 January 2005 16:51, Ira Abramov wrote:
> I'm at a client of mine. for the last day and a half I've been trying to
> construct (per his odd request) an SSL reverse proxy for an exchange
> server behind the firewall by a Debian machine in the DMZ.
>
> in more words: a user sits at home, requests an https:// page from the
> Debian, which in turn gets the page on http from the exchange and sends
> back the reply.
>
> ProxyPass was enough for all such setups so far, but nooooooo.... see MS
> offers a thing called "Exchange front end" just for this purpose so they
> tried their best to stop this kind of setup from happening.
>
> first obstacle: the pages produced by the exchange contain an BASE href
> anchor that directs to the full name of the exchange. Proxypass
> translates only headers, I discovered apache2 has a mod_proxy_html that
> edits contents as well, problem solved.
>
> second obstacle - after login, the OWA application sends you to a page
> with two frames. the navbar and the viewer. the navbar sends you to
> /exchange/<username>/<mailbox> in the viewer frame, however when I
> access it via the reverse proxy, some of the links in the navbar (not
> all!) become /exchange/<mailbox> and therefore result in err404s.
>
> I finally trieda solution to give each user a different URL to login
> at and then it works. though it is UGLY. If instead of:
> https://<server>/exchange/
> they would log in at:
> https://<server>/exchange/<user>/
>
> but that wont work either! they get their inbox but links to the
> messages themselves are composited on the wrong base URL... and that's
> the good part on Mozilla! most of the users are on Exploder and that
> returns just "<html></html>" for both frames, not even a 404.
>
> In other words, as I said, MS is doing its best to stop you from using a
> reverse proxy on the OWA...
>
> Has anyone tamed this silly beast?
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