Integrated Reverse Proxy

Reverse Proxy is integrated with Web Server. Reverse Proxy can be executed as an internal module.

A reverse proxy is a proxy that appears to be a web server (origin server) to clients but in reality forwards the requests it receives to one or more origin servers. Because a reverse proxy presents itself as an origin server, clients do not need to be configured to use a reverse proxy. By configuring a given reverse proxy to forward requests to multiple similarly configured origin servers, a reverse proxy can operate as an application level software load balancer. In a typical deployment one or more reverse proxies will be deployed between the browsers and the origin servers.

Integrated reverse proxy provides additional layer of protection between the public Internet and the origin Web Servers. Web Server can be configured as Reverse Proxy server for back end application servers like Tomcat and Sun Java System Application Server 9.

Web Server provides GUI and CLI support for configuring the reverse proxy.

For information about configuring reverse proxy, see the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Administrator’s Guide.