DeleGate reference manual version 9.9 / Rewriting Resouce Identifier
Rewriting Resouce Identifier
As an application level proxy, DeleGate provides virtual view for resources
in other servers, by aliasing, merging, and hiding real names
(like URL which identifies a resource or a service) in real servers.
It is like a generalized mechanism of NFS file mount,
but unlikely it is realized by rewriting content of data.
In other words, this is a mapping (rewriting)
of virtual names in client
to/from real names in server,
where names are embedded in a protocol dependent data structure
on request/response messages between a client and a server.
With this function named mounting,
for example, a resource
http://hostiN/ is shown to client as if it is http://hostx/iN/.
MOUNT can be used to
customize
built-in icons and messages of DeleGate too.
