reverse-proxy

Explain Reverse Proxy

I just want to know how can a hacker setup a reverse proxy in front of website (say www.xyz.com) to steal user information. A simple example will be more than enough. If user types www.xyz.com in web browser then is it possible that the request goes through the reverse proxy set up by a hacker or it will be like phishing attack where the...

nginx and Perl: FastCGI vs reverse proxy (PSGI/Starman)

A very popular choice for running Perl web applications these days seems to be behind a nginx webserver proxying requests to either a FastCGI daemon or a PSGI enabled webserver (e.g. Starman). There have been lots of question as to why one would do this in general (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2939393/why-use-nginx-with-catal...

add unique id to requests forwarded from nginx reverse proxy

Hi, We are running nginx as a reverse proxy that forwards requests to a Clojure application running Compojure, a library that wraps around Jetty and provides our application with the ability to service web requests. We currently capture logs generated by both nginx and the Clojure application (via log4j to syslog). We are unable, howev...

Reverse Proxy on Apache for SharePoint Foundation2010

We have an Apache (Redhat 4.6, Apache 2.0.52, libxml2 2.6.16) as a reverse proxy. Authentification and most of the functionality is o.k. But on SharePoint2010-side he has minor problems: - Pulldown menu doesn't work - List editings menu has errors There seems as Reverse proxy can't extract the hard coded of the SharePoint Server within ...