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I have a computer with a strong CPU and a lot of memory (strongy) running Windows Server 2008 R2, that is blocked by a firewall from any access from the outside world.
I have a computer with a weak CPU and little memory (weaky) running Windows Server 2003, that has port 80 open to the outside world.
I want to put a Java server on strongy, that will connect with the outside world via websockets. I use socket.io implementation based on Netty: https://github.com/mrniko/netty-socketio . It listens on strongy:8090. There is also an Apache server on strongy that serves the static content.
Now, I know how to route http requests from weaky to strongy - I just put these two lines in httpd.conf on weaky:
ProxyPass /myapp http://strongy/myapp
ProxyPassReverse /myapp http://strongy/myapp
However, this doesn't help with the socket.io requests...
I don't need secure connection, load balancing or any other fancy stuff - just route the requests back and forth.
Erel Segal-Halevi
Posted 2013-01-07T11:03:34.917
Reputation: 1 445
Why don't you use Web Services then? – Dave – 2013-01-07T11:20:08.783
I think you might need to use netcat to create a connection between two ports on strongy. for example http connection - use netcat to forward connections from port 80 to port 8090. – mnmnc – 2013-01-07T11:20:17.600
What is a strong or weak computer? Does strong mean secure and weak mean non-secure? – Dave – 2013-01-07T11:20:35.833
@DaveRook most probably the names resemble 'assumed security level' based on accessibility from the outside world. – mnmnc – 2013-01-07T11:22:26.690
@DaveRook I use socket.io because I want fast full-duplex communication between the clients and my server. For example, when the client sends a service-request, I want the server to be able to send log messages while the request is processed. This is very easy with socket.io. Strong/weak refers to computational power. The strong computer does all the difficult computations. – Erel Segal-Halevi – 2013-01-07T13:29:06.453