Specifying a Proxied URL on the CERN Server

• From: John C. Mallery <JCMa@wilson.ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 02:09-0500
• To: www-proxy@www0.cern.ch
• Cc: www-lib@www0.cern.ch, mshuster@AI.MIT.EDU, benjamin@AI.MIT.EDU
• Message-Id: <19941206070901.1.JCMA@jefferson.ai.mit.edu>

We need to use the CERN server to provide a proxy service to the world for
another server behind it running database code.

To achieve this, we need to give the world a URL that will reach through the
proxy cache on the cern server to the backend server.

There are two ways to do this that come to mind:

1. Install redirects on the CERN server that reference the backend host via
the proxy.  Simple and elegant BUT I cant' find anything in the latest specs
to indicate that this is possible.

2. Write a script to convert an external reference on the CERN server into a
proxied get on the backend server.


Absolutely ANY workable suggestions on either of these approaches would be
most gratefully appreciated, especially if it arrived by 13:00 GMT.

We need to make this work by 17:00 GMT so that we can proxy cache some search
URLs.

Received on Tuesday, 6 December 1994 08:10:25 UTC