What are the common softwares and setups to have proxies with IIS?

[Phillip Pi]

Hello.

What are the common softwares and setups to do proxies with IIS out
there for Internet Web sites? Is it IIS and ISA (Internet Security &
Acceleration Server -- also requires Windows 2003 server which I need to
get if I have to)? Or are there something else? Do I need two separate
PCs for IIS and ISA, or can I do them in one PC?

I am trying to find a way to have IIS hosts simple PAC script files and
client PCs download these scripts, scripts configure network proxies in
Web browsers (e.g., IE6 and Firefox), all web datas transfer through
this IIS server for the Internet.

I tried XP Pro. SP2's IIS and IIS Proxy (http://www.iisproxy.net/), but
that didn't seem to work and seems like this addon project is dead since
I didn't get any replies from the author/developer.

However, I did manage to get this proxy setup to work if I used the
latest Apache in a Dell OEM Windows XP Home SP2. Now, if I can do the
same for IIS.

This special setup is only for testings and pretending to be like the
production proxies. Thank you in advance. :)
--
Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Partner Engineering/Internet Service Provider/Symantec Online Services,
Consumer Business Unit
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
-----------------------------------------------------
Email: phill...@symantec.comSYMC (remove SYMC to reply by e-mail)
-----------------------------------------------------
Please do NOT e-mail me for technical support. DISCLAIMER: The views
expressed in this posting are mine, and do not necessarily reflect the
views of my employer. Thank you.

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/13/2009 2:36 PM, Phillip Pi wrote:
> What are the common softwares and setups to do proxies with IIS out
> there for Internet Web sites? Is it IIS and ISA (Internet Security &
> Acceleration Server -- also requires Windows 2003 server which I need to
> get if I have to)? Or are there something else? Do I need two separate
> PCs for IIS and ISA, or can I do them in one PC?

Internet Security and Acceleration Server is Microsoft's proxy (and then
some) server. IIS is simply an HTTP / FTP / SMTP / NNTP server.

> I am trying to find a way to have IIS hosts simple PAC script files and
> client PCs download these scripts, scripts configure network proxies in
> Web browsers (e.g., IE6 and Firefox), all web datas transfer through
> this IIS server for the Internet.

Please see my reply to your previous post about how to do this.

> However, I did manage to get this proxy setup to work if I used the
> latest Apache in a Dell OEM Windows XP Home SP2. Now, if I can do the
> same for IIS.

Seeing as how you've done it before, you can use IIS as your HTTP server
and Apache (via mod_proxy) as your proxy server. Granted you would have
to run IIS and Apache on separate ports, but I'm betting you would want
to do that any way. ;)

> This special setup is only for testings and pretending to be like the
> production proxies. Thank you in advance. :)

*nod*

Grant. . . .