Configuring The Web Servers Of A Proxy Service; Section 1.3, "Configuring The Web Servers Of A Proxy Service - Novell ACCESS MANAGER 3.1 SP1 - GATEWAY GUIDE Manual

1.3 Configuring the Web Servers of a Proxy
Service
The Web server configuration determines how the Access Gateway handles connections and packets
between itself and the Web servers.
1 Click Access Gateways > Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy] > [Name of Proxy Service] > Web
Servers.
2 Specify the hostname that is placed in the HTTP header of the packets being sent to the Web
servers. In the Host Header field, select one of the following:
Forward Received Host Name: Indicates that you want the HTTP header to contain the
published DNS name that the user sent in the request.
Web Server Host Name: Indicates that you want the published DNS name that the user
sent in the request to be replaced by the DNS name of the Web server. Use the Web Server
Host Name field to specify this name.
3 Select Error on DNS Mismatch to have the proxy determine whether the proxy service should
compare the hostname in the DNS header that came from the browser with the DNS name
specified in the Web Server Host Name option. The value in the parentheses is the value that
comes in the header from the browser.
If you enable this option and the names don't match, the request is not forwarded to the Web
server. Instead, the proxy service returns an error to the requesting browser. This option is only
available when you select to send the Web Server Host Name in the HTTP header.
4 If your browsers are capable of sending HTTP 1.1 requests, configure the following field to
match your Web servers.
Enable Force HTTP 1.0 to Origin: Indicates whether HTTP 1.1 requests from browsers are
translated to HTTP 1.0 requests before sending them to the Web server. If your browsers are
sending HTTP 1.1 requests and your Web server can only handle HTTP 1.0 requests, you
should enable this option.
When the option is enabled, the Access Gateway translates an HTTP 1.1 request to an HTTP
1.0 request.
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