I need a method of allowing an authenticated user to establish a proxied web session to a device via my rails app. The user will not be able to directly connect to the device due to subnets/firewalls, so all requests need to be sent via the public web server.
I looked into just using apache's mod_proxy, but this requires statically configuring all proxy entries in httpd.conf, and then those entries are always there. I need a way for a user to select a device via my web app, and then if they have the proper security access, open a web session to that device.
Does anyone know of a good way to accomplish this? Any pre-made gems out there do this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
-Jeff
