HTTPManifold 0.9b review

HTTPManifold is an application for tunnelling Web/HTTP traffic for multiple servers through a single IP address (a reverse proxy)

License: AFPL (Aladdin Free Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Adam M. Lane

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HTTPManifold is an application for tunnelling Web/HTTP traffic for multiple servers through a single IP address (a reverse proxy). HTTPManifold is intended for home users and small businesses so that they can host multiple domains and sub-domains through a single IP address on port 80.

HTTPManifold forwards traffic to other machines, logs requests, and rewrites content during the process. It can also log the raw content of requests for the purpose of debugging Web services, etc. It provides a Web interface for configuration and log viewing with some log analysis capabilities.

Here are some key features of "HTTPManifold":
Ability to service HTTP request on any port.
Allow SSL connections and therefore provide HTTPS to server that otherwise don't support it.
Forward HTTP requests to any IP address on any port using HTTP or HTTPS.
Rewrite HTTP headers and body during forward translation.
Log raw HTTP request and response bytes for debugging purposes.
Serve static HTML pages.
Provide web interface to HTTPManifold configuration options.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds the ability to forward requests to a sub-path on a destination server.
It adds options to do simple string replacement when processing response content.
The appearance of the Web interface has been updated.
HSQLDB support has been added for enhanced request logging.
X-forwarded-for header support has been added so that destination servers can see the source IP address.
Some of the forwarding implementation has been touched up to improve performance and fix small defects.