LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
Atlanta, GA May 30, 2003

Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Proxies for Remote Resource Access > EZproxy Demonstration

EZproxy's new scheme

Last year, a version of EZproxy was released with a new scheme for rewriting URLs. Using wildcard DNS entries and the "Host:" header, URLs can be rewritten as such:

http://www.altavista.com/ maps to
http://80-www.altavista.com.ezproxy.law.uconn.edu/

http://doc.altavista.com/help/search/search_help.shtml maps to
http://80-doc.altavista.com.ezproxy.law.uconn.edu/help/search/search_help.shtml

How is this better?

Eliminates non-standard ports; allows EZproxy services to be used through restrictive corporate firewalls
Reduces resource requirements for EZproxy server (fewer ports)

What do you give up?

Can no longer run EZproxy and a standard web server on the same machine