webportfwd

The effect is that a browser will be redirected to load the page at the URL provided by the port redirector. I wrote this because I have a bad memory. At one place I worked at, they had plenty of systems running various web servers on various ports. All these were accessible outside of their network using one hostname. Basically their firewall forwarded the incoming connections to certain ports to the various internal web servers. Now they wanted this type of effect locally within their LAN. They want to be able to go to http://central_web_host:port and be redirected to the corresponding server. Their firewall also blocked internal hosts from connecting to systems via the external network.

I could have used multiple instances of apache running on the different ports to do this, but that was overkill and a waste of resources. I couldn't install a router to do port forwarding between the servers and clients because they were all on the same network. So I wrote this program.

If you find this tool useful, please send me an email to let me know. My email address is edsel at adap dot org

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