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Klaptrap
Asked: 2010-07-17 07:11:21 +0800 CST

CISCO ASA 5505 Base Licence - Ability to interpret http request headers (host headers)

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Base licence configured CISCO ASA 5505 is not capable of routing based on interpretation of the inbound http request headers - affectively host header redirect - am I correct?

If I am correct will an upgrade from the base licence help me - or is device not the best for this type of requirement, and if so, please recommend a similar device (budget wise) that is.

If am not correct, and a base licence configure Cisco ASA 5505 will do this, please advise...

Thanks.

routing cisco-asa http-headers host-headers

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  1. Best Answer

    It sounds like you're talking about using the ASA 5505 to listen on a public IP address and route, at layer 7, requests to different web servers behind it based on the "Host:" header specified in the HTTP request.

    This isn't something that the ASA devices have ever been able to do, to my knowledge.

    You could do this with an HTTP reverse proxy, like Apache (or any number of other reverse proxies). If you want something commerical-off-the-shelf, Microsoft ISA Server can do this, too.

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