Configure link translation

To configure link translation

In the console tree of ISA Server Management, click General.
In the details pane, click Configure Global Link Translation.
To configure global mappings, on the Global Mappings tab, click Add to add a global mapping.
To configure link redirection for unpublished internal sites, on the Link Redirection tab:
- Select Redirect clients navigating to these unpublished sites.
- Click Add to create and add a URL set containing the internal addresses of the unpublished sites.
- In Redirect users to this published URL, provide the URL to which you want users to be redirected when they request one of the unpublished sites.
To configure content types, on the Content Types tab, in Selected content types, select one or more content types.

Notes

For more information about link translation, see Link Translation Concepts in ISA Server 2006 at the Microsoft ISA Server TechCenter Web site (http://www.microsoft.com).
To open ISA Server Management, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft ISA Server, and then click ISA Server Management.
For ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition, expand Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, expand Arrays, expand Array_Name, and then click General.
For ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition, expand Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, expand Server_Name, and then click General.

Important

Use the link redirection feature when you want users who request an unpublished site to be redirected to a specific URL, rather than receiving an error.
By default, link translation is applied only to HTML content: text/html, text/css, and text/webviewhtml.
To view the MIME types and file types included in a content group, view the content group properties.
We recommend that you use the sample error page provided with ISA Server, or alternatively one modeled on the sample error page, to avoid creating a vulnerability to cross-site scripting attacks. For more information about cross-site scripting, see Information on Cross-Site Scripting Security Vulnerability at the Microsoft TechNet Web site (http://www.microsoft.com).
We recommend that when ISA Server is configured to direct traffic to a published server over HTTPS, that the corresponding Web listener be configured to listen only on HTTPS. If you allow users to connect to ISA Server over HTTP, and then direct that traffic over HTTPS to a published server, ISA Server will translate HTTPS links to HTTP, which has security implications. This is an issue for a Web listener that listens only on HTTP, or on HTTP and HTTPS.