I remember testing this out locally before blogging and using it. So i don’t think running locally shd be an issue.

One more question for you: I’ve successfully set up mox_proxy (reverse proxy) locally. I can make external ajax calls in Firefox & Safari with no problem. But I still get the Access Denied error from IE. Do you think it has to do with running things locally?

Your proxy ajax demo works fine for me in IE. Yet, mine won’t work in IE.

I’m thinking it might have to do with running it locally, but I’m not sure.

Thanks.

If we could use .htaccess, that’ll make things more dynamic and powerful.

I’ve tried a couple of rules – but none worked!

Let me know. Thanks.

However, there are some additional headers: ["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]=>
string(9) “127.0.0.1″
["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST"]=>
string(14) “localhost:8080″
["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER"]=>
string(11) “192.168.1.2″

As you can see, the proxy server ip and hostname are passed to the target server. Thus, I’m assuming mod_ip_forwarding specifically resolves that by NOT passing the proxy server info — which is a highly desirable thing!

I don’t want the target server to even know about the proxy server. But I guess it’s ok for most situations — wherein only the REMOTE_ADDR value will be used by target servers.

I have yet to install mod_ip_forwarding to see if it does the job, but I’d like to test it out.

Thanks for the article, mate. This is a game changer for cross-scripting until future browsers support it on the client-side. At least, it’s available for the folks who have access to Apache (or their web server).

I was in great need for this. Flash 5 was the last hope, but I recently tried it with no results.

Kudos! Thanks!!!!

But if mod_proxy takes care of that, then there’s no need for additional modules.

If you’d be kind to modify http://gtalkbots.com/reverse-proxy-data.php to return the REMOTE_ADDR server variable, I could try the demo from my server (pc).

Let me know.

But i believe you will get ip of abhinavsingh.com and not gtalkbots.com in case they were on hosted on different ip servers.

Response header also only include abhinavsingh.com and have no sign that it proxied the request to gtalkbots.com internally.

If it’s your server’s, then there’s no point in using mod_proxy.

Thanks.

Stay tuned as I plan to explore more on the same lines in my next few posts.