Portal Gateway configuration for Proxy functionality
Hi All,
Are there any customers out there configuring their Portal Gateway to go through
a Proxy server and then have the proxy server pass requests to the Portal server?
Or do you recommend configuring the Portal Gateway to go through the Portal server(via the gateway proxy add-on)?
Does anyone have pros or cons for the 2 scenarios?
Please email me at chris_wilt@transcanada.com
Thanks,
Chris Wilt
TransCanada
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708934] at [2007-11-25 4:36:49]
The proxy add ons with the portal server have both http and netlet proxy deamons, if your using netlet then the recommendation would be to use the netlet proxy for netlets and httpd proxy for http traffic.
If your not using netlets then you can put in a proxy server between the gateway and server. I have seen different customers use either of the two for security and varying reasons specific to their environment.
The httpd and netlet proxies are primarily used when there is a requirement to clamp down the number of open between the gateway and the server. Generally there would be a firewall between the gateway and server and for security reasons you don't want to open a lot of ports, so in that context with the gateway and netlet proxies you only open two ports in addition to profile server port and 443 if your running gateway on ssl.
HTH ..
