I have a client that has a member portal on their wordpress install. The member logins are all managed via wordpress users. This part is working fine.
They’ve recently negotiated access to a 3rd-party website service for their members. This 3rd-party services can do authentication by IP address. Obviously, we don’t know all the IP addresses of our members (and maintaining an up to date list of that would be worse than maintaining a list of username/passwords for the 3rd-party service).
It occurred to me though that what we could try is providing a tunnel through our wordpress site. That is, set up a simple proxy thing on our wordpress server, such that our members’ browsers would send the request to 3rdparty.myclient.com, which forwards the request to app.3rdparty.com, receives the response, and sends that back to the requesting browser.
Is such a thing easy to do ?
(At this early point I’m mostly asking for feasibility, for scoping)
Or am I opening a can of worms worse than surströmming?
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