Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at web farm related topics, with a recent focus on Application Request Routing (ARR). This week we take a look at the man-in-the-middle issue caused by ARR functioning as a reverse proxy. This causes the IP addresses, SSL, and other data to be hidden from the web servers because of ARR’s role as the middle man. Have no fear though, this is easy to overcome.

This week we take a look at the issue caused by the man-in-the-middle and how to resolve it with ARR Helper, a small component offered by Microsoft to address this very issue.

This is now the 9th week in a mini-series on web farms, and the 33rd week of the entire series. You can view past and future weeks in the section below.

About Scott Forsyth

Senior Systems Engineer at ORCS Web, Inc (www.orcsweb.com) and co-founder of Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com). Microsoft MVP for IIS. ASPInsider. Strengths are IIS, ASP.NET, DNS, Windows Server, and Hyper-V. This author has published 50 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.