Force Rewrite Proxy Mode even when on same host?

[uwekeim Profile Website]

Currently I'm using ISAPI_Rewrite 3 to rewrite URLs on the same IIS 8 server between two web applications, since this is not possible with the IIS built-in rewrite module.

My .htaccess file roughly should look like:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^shop\.html$ http://www.example.org/Order/Shop.aspx$1 [P]

But since proxy mode is not supported on the same host (as described in the Apache mod_rewrite manual), I have to actually artifically call my destination URL via SSL to fake a different host.

So the actual .htaccess file roughly looks like:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^shop\.html$ https://www.example.org/Order/Shop.aspx$1 [P]

(Please notice the "https" instead of the "http" above)

My question is:

Is it somehow possible to use the proxy mode in ISAPI_Rewrite even when staying on the same host?

[HeliconAndrew]

Can you re-locate one of the apps to a different host? I understand that it's silly, but I'd have too look into this to come up with something smarter.

Regards

[uwekeim Profile Website]

Thanks! I did this virtually by using HTTPS instead of HTTP, that's a suitable workaround for me now.

I am just curious whether you could add an option to force proxy mode even on the same host.