Hosting outofprocess 3.1 web app require Windows Server Hosting updated too? - iis

I am trying to understand the difference between inProcess and outofprocess while trying to host a dot net core app on IIS. If I am hosting outofprocess, does it still require updated .net core server hosting, or installed at all?

Whether you are using in-process or out-of-process, you need to use .net core server hosting. Host
On startup, an ASP.NET Core app builds a host. The host encapsulates all of the app's resources, such as: 1. An HTTP server implementation 2. Middleware components 3. Logging 4. Dependency injection (DI) services 5.Configuration
In process hosting model
A request arrives from the web to the kernel-mode HTTP.sys driver.
The driver routes the native request to IIS on the website's
configured port, usually 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS).
The ASP.NET Core Module receives the native request and passes it to
IIS HTTP Server (IISHttpServer). IIS HTTP Server is an in-process
server implementation for IIS that converts the request from native
to managed.
After the IIS HTTP Server processes the request:
The request is sent to the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline.
The middleware pipeline handles the request and passes it on as an
HttpContext instance to the app's logic.
The app's response is passed back to IIS through IIS HTTP Server.
IIS sends the response to the client that initiated the request.
Out-of-process hosting model
Requests arrive from the web to the kernel-mode HTTP.sys driver.
The driver routes the requests to IIS on the website's configured
port. The configured port is usually 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS).
The module forwards the requests to Kestrel on a random port for the
app. The random port isn't 80 or 443.

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Redirecting HTTPS call to a .NET Core Web API with IIS and Kestrel

hopefully someone can help me.
This is the scenario I want to implement:
Server A has IIS installed and hosts a web app "mysite.com" and some web apis.
Server B has a .NET Core Web API hosted as a Windows Service.
When a client makes a request to a specific port like "mysite.com:9091/api/get-value"
I would like for IIS to re-route that call with same payload to server B on "myapi:9091/api/get-value" through HTTP.
The reason I want to do this is because We have authentication and certificates already configured on Server A, and also we want all incoming requests to go through the main site.
I have been reading on reverse proxy with IIS, and it would seem to be what I need, but it's not clear if the hosted app that will be running under Kestrel must be on the same physical machine as the IIS Web Server (i.e. Server A), or I can re-route to whichever other server I want, as long as it's on same network.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Hopefully my question is clear enough, otherwise please do let me know and I'll try to rephrase.
It is not necesarray to have both kestrel and iis on same server.
You could use the iis URL rewrite rule and reverse proxy to forward the request to the Kestrel server:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/setup-iis-with-url-rewrite-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-real-world/ba-p/846222
Host ASP.NET Core on Windows with IIS
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel?view=aspnetcore-3.1

Check if a request to iis 5 has been arrived

I have two servers on the same internal network the first server that has the role of a client makes HTTP requests to a web service that resides in the second server. The second server has IIS 5 to response in client requests. I have occasionally requests to the web services that has no response at all. How can I find in the IIS 5 if a specific request has been arrived in the IIS? I have to find if there is connectivity problem (network issues) or IIS or maybe application (web service) issues
Thanks

how to transparently wrap tcp/ip request with ssl using windows api

I'm developing a security system. It has a proxy server acting like a ssl termination using Nginx which will forwards all tcp/ip connections from clients to other third-party systems.
The client-proxy connections must be authenticated and securely encrypted by ssl.
And my problems is:
Each client is a computer which installed Windows 7 OS or higher. It has been installed with some third-party applications which cannot be interfered. For the better user experience, all clients' tcp/ip outbound requests from any applications must be transparently "converted" into (or "wrapped" in) ssl requests before coming to proxy server. And my first idea is to develop a network driver to access these requests using windows api, namely WFP(Windows Filtering Platform). I have read its online documentation but it's not easy to understand. Can you have to find some projects like this or tell me which sections in the documentation need to be focused? Thank you in advance!
Your issue is a bit unclear but here are my thoughts:
You want to have full encryption between the End User Client to the App Service.
Current:
Client --(443: TLS)--> NGINX --(Clear; Port 80)--> App Service
(Terminate TLS)
Change:
Client --(443: TLS)--> NGINX --(TLS; Port 443)--> App Proxy -(Plain; 80)-> App Service
(Terminate TLS) (Nginx with self-signed Cert)
The change is to add an additional Nginx server on the app server to provide the last layer of TLS between the load balancer and the App Service.
If your App service has the capability to serve SSL connections directly that's even better as you can just configure that in place of running an additional Nginx server on the app host. (If you wanted you could run apache or any other web server that supports proxy/load balancing capabilities)
If you are worried about the App Service port, it won't make a difference, the idea is that the App Proxy (being Nginx or the likes) will handle the encryption on a different port to then pass via localhost to the App Service (in plain text).
Additional Resources:
Can Nginx do TCP load balance with SSL termination?
https://serverfault.com/questions/978922/nginx-proxy-pass-to-https
https://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2017/05/02/https-behind-proxy.html
https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssl_module.html

How to host servicestack on node.js?

We have a Icneium Hybrid Mobile app accessing servicestack REST services. Is it OK to host the servicestack on Node.js instead of IIS? Any examples are highly appreciated.
You won't be able to host ServiceStack in node.js directly, but there are many proxy modules for node that can transparently proxy requests to a ServiceStack Self Hosted application, thus removing the need for IIS.
You now have two options:
If your intent is just to ditch IIS and you don't specifically need node.js then a self hosted application is great, because there are no other dependency layers. Requests can go straight to ServiceStack.
But if you are looking to have some integration with node.js, then as I said a transparent proxy can forward the requests to the ServiceStack service, but you will still need the Self Hosted ServiceStack service running behind the node proxy.
Set up a Self Hosted ServiceStack Service
To get this to work. You would need to configure ServiceStack to use Self Hosting. The way this is done is to create a AppHostHttpListenerBase AppHost in a console application, as shown in the link (above).
Once you have a Self Hosted application, you will have configured the hostname and port that ServiceStack will listen on. If you navigate to that URL you should see your ServiceStack service.
If you chose not to use node (option 1), then the ServiceStack application is ready to be accessed directly. If you do wish to use with node because you have some other part of your application already use node (option 2) then follow the next steps to setup a proxy.
Node.JS Proxy
There are many proxy modules for node available. I have chosen to go with the popular node-http-proxy, by nodejitsu.
Setup looks simple. Requests on port 80 standard http port will be forwarded to ServiceStack application on localhost:9000. Assuming that's were its running.
var http = require('http'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
httpProxy.createProxyServer({target:'http://localhost:9000'}).listen(80);
If you need more control. Check out all the options in the documentation.

IIS 7.5 Reverse Proxy Implementation

I am curious to understand how IIS 7.5 Reverse Proxy is implemented in Rewrite Module (v2).
I am planning to setup a website that will handle proxing between requests coming from users (internet) and my HTTP services that are deployed on the same server. I have setup a website within IIS and configured the reverse proxy logic. I've then setup another website on the same server and deployed all my WCF REST services there. I am planning to implement IIS offloading, common tasks (such as authentication, etc) on the reverse proxy website before the request gets to the actual services (like WCF routing service for SOAP). Configuration is working perfectly fine.
However I am trying to understand the implications of this setup. When IIS does reverse proxing, does it create a new HTTP request (and a new TCP port) between those two websites? And even if both sites are on the same server? Should I expect number of TCP connections opened on this server to get doubled when reverse proxy is used?
Furthermore, has anyone experienced any performance/resource issues with a similar setup?
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