摘要 |
A device and a method for distributing and forwarding requests to a plurality of web servers in an industrial automation arrangement. The device is configured to receive requests addressed to a well-known port, and the web servers are addressable by at least one local address and by means of one port number. The device is also configured to evaluate the destination URLs of the requests, where each of the requests have the same host header of the request and the server addressing components of the destination URLs are possibly identical, a path component of the URL in each case defines one of the web servers, and the device is configured to forward the request to one of the web servers defined by the path information.
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