[KLUG Members] http switching?

[Bruce Smith]

> > There are many, many http load balancers available.  Just search
> > freshmeat for "http load balanace".
> 
> Hmmm... I thought I had explained my situation clearly.
> 
> I'm not looking for a load balancer; if I were, I would have just searched
> Freshmeat, found one, and used it.
> 
> I need an HTTP switch (hence the subject line) that will rip open incoming
> packets and proxy them over to the correct web server based on the
> HTTP/1.1 header.  These web servers, being masqueraded behind this
> firewall, have no other way to talk to the outside world.
> 
> I don't have all kinds of extra cash lying around to invest in running
> another server behind my firewall to do the switching.  My firewall will
> be behind my school's firewall anyway, so ultra-security really isn't an
> issue.  I've searched freshmeat to no avail.  More ideas?

Apache itself can virtual host HTTP 1.1, so you could run all the 
sites from one web server.  

If the load is too great for one server, you could still use Apache
to virtual host all the sites, giving each site a single web page
that consists of a meta tag, which forwards to another server.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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