IIS Redirect a sub directory to an external URL

Posted by Will Hancock on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Will Hancock
Published on 2012-10-24T10:55:41Z Indexed on 2012/10/24 11:03 UTC
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Hi forgive my ignorance for I am a humble client side developer...

I am a webapp made up of static HTML and JS. But I want to call an external service via AJAX, this causes some issues with CORS or Cross Domain policy on the browser.

So I need to make a request to MY server http://dev.webapp.com/service

So I want to redirect the /service on the server to http://externaldata.com/service

And return the result.

The Mac boys have acheived this in Apache with a proxy pass:

ProxyPass /service http://externaldata.com/service

Can anybody help with how to do this in IIS?

I have found articles about ARRs and Reverse Proxy, terms that are alien and seem too complicated. As a humble webdev can I do this using IIS GUI?

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