RE: FN-FORUM: IIS Forward Request to Another Server

date posted 8th February 2008 09:50

> -----Original Message-----
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> > Anyhow, here's the scenario a client of ours has several Windows
> based
> ...
> > re-direct some traffic on port 80 to one server and some traffic to
> another
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> >What they want cannot be done at the networking level because you
> cannot
> >route a port to two different machines. You would need some sort of
> >proxy, however IIS doesn't do this without adding something.
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> I didn't catch the full message so i may be off the mark here but.....
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> If you are using a dynamic website why not use the homepage to =
randomly
> add
> a redirect of visitors to the alternative server?

Absolutely, use the port 80 server with the host header to simply =
redirect the user to the other server using a different port. Ugly but =
do-able..


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