IIS7 is quite modular, it is shipped with lots of goodies as separate modules and together it is now one of the most powerful and flexible web server.
In this post I intent to cover how we can easily configure ARR and URL Rewrite Module to get a similar functionality as of Mod Proxy in Apache.
Here I will demonstrate configuration of a reverse proxy which according to the definition is
Reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. A general use case to configure such proxies could be to handle cross domain Ajax requests, so basically if I would like to call a service hosted as http://anotherdomain.com/service from http://localdomain/service I would need to configure a proxy which will request resources from anotherdomain.com/service on behalf of localdomain ### Configuration