18 Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP1 Access Gateway Guidenovdocx (en) 19 February 20101.3 Configuring the Web Servers of a ProxyServiceThe Web server configuration determines how the Access Gateway handles connections and packetsbetween itself and the Web servers.1 Click Access Gateways > Edit > [Name of Reverse Proxy] > [Name of Proxy Service] > WebServers.2 Specify the hostname that is placed in the HTTP header of the packets being sent to the Webservers. In the Host Header field, select one of the following: Forward Received Host Name: Indicates that you want the HTTP header to contain thepublished DNS name that the user sent in the request. Web Server Host Name: Indicates that you want the published DNS name that the usersent in the request to be replaced by the DNS name of the Web server. Use the Web ServerHost Name field to specify this name.3 Select Error on DNS Mismatch to have the proxy determine whether the proxy service shouldcompare the hostname in the DNS header that came from the browser with the DNS namespecified in the Web Server Host Name option. The value in the parentheses is the value thatcomes in the header from the browser.If you enable this option and the names don't match, the request is not forwarded to the Webserver. Instead, the proxy service returns an error to the requesting browser. This option is onlyavailable 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 tomatch your Web servers.Enable Force HTTP 1.0 to Origin: Indicates whether HTTP 1.1 requests from browsers aretranslated to HTTP 1.0 requests before sending them to the Web server. If your browsers aresending HTTP 1.1 requests and your Web server can only handle HTTP 1.0 requests, youshould enable this option.When the option is enabled, the Access Gateway translates an HTTP 1.1 request to an HTTP1.0 request.
