Re: Redirecting external traffic through IIS4 to an internal IIS6 server

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From: Kristofer Gafvert (kgafvert_at_NEWSilopia.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:31:50 +0200

Hello,

IIS cannot act as a reverse proxy, which is what you need for this to work.

The redirection feature of IIS is just a redirection, and there needs to be
a "clear" connection between the client and the "new" webserver. 

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Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
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"John" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:104f701c43f56$8faccb60$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I want to redirect internet traffic which hits our IIS4
> server to an IIS6 / ASP.NET site which is located
> internally on our LAN.  Basically, let the traffic pass
> through IIS4 and hit the IIS6 server.  IIS4 can be seen
> from the internet and the IIS6 machine is only available
> across our LAN.
>
> Is this possible?  If so, any pointers on how to do it?
>
> I have tried redirecting the traffic by changing the
> properties of the default web site on IIS4 to point to
> either a directory on the IIS6 machine (in which case the
> source code was displayed to the internet user as the
> asp.net pages were not compiled) or to a URL on the IIS6
> machine (in which case the page could not be displayed /
> the server could not be contacted across the internet).
> In the latter case redirection works for the LAN users.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!  Thanks.
>
>

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