Secure authenticated forwarding to multiple web servers

From: Damian Skeeles (dskeeles_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: 12 Jun 2004 02:52:31 -0700

I've been trying to find some software that will provide a solution to
an interesting problem...

I have a PC acting as a server at home, which is running various
applications that offer their own integrated web interface; two
examples of these are TightVNC, and Deductus (a quite good file
indexing/search engine); I'd also like to run a conventional web
server.. perhaps a photo album app, maybe streaming music, etc.

At present, I have a few of the 'tamer' apps running these services on
obscure ports, which are opened in the firewall. The rest, I just run
locally, with the ports blocked in the firewall, and accessed via an
SSH tunnel, which requires a client app on my laptop.

What I'd really like, is a port-mapping web proxy application; I would
access my machine through a standard web service on port 80. After
navigating to a 'Secure area' page, it would take L/P authentication,
then establish an SSL connection with a standard web browser. The next
page would offer me links to the various web servers from these
individual applications, and clicking one would forward to that server
(on whichever port), but all through the proxy via port 80, and with
SSL security. ie.

            (Authentication)
   Laptop --> Web Server Proxy App -> Deductus Web
Server
aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd myserver.isp.com:80 127.0.0.1:5000

 <-------------------------------> ------------->
           SSL Encryption Port mapping/Forwarding

Does anyone know of such an application? I suspect that it may be a
feature of some web servers, rather than an independant application -
but haven't yet found anything.

This is primarily for personal use, with appropriate scale and cost
constraints, although I probably will develop it to deploy something
at work.

Thanks!

Damian

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