When to use Web Server (Oracle HTTP Server) in front of Weblogic - oracle

At work there is a legacy system on which a HTTP server (ohs) is used in front of an Oracle Weblogic Server for forwarding SSL connections.
Since Weblogic allows SSL connections to the web service, why/when is a Web Server needed in front of Weblogic; apart from the load-balance scenario?

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Sending structured logs through proxy

I have a .NET application that runs on Windows and am trying to send the application logs/structured logs (Serilog) through a proxy to a log server. The Windows machine doesn't have access to the Internet, so I was thinking that I could setup a Proxy(Squid) to forward logs to the Serilog log server (in AWS).
A web browser on the Windows machine can access the log servers' webpage/dashboard, however, the application itself isn't able to send logs through the Squid proxy server.
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Is a Proxy server the correct tool to use in this scenario?
Just because a web browser on the Windows machine (configured to use the Proxy), can access the log servers' URL, should that mean my application which is streaming serilog structured data, be able to send logs to this server?
Should I be routing my serilog data through the Proxy server, or should I be using a reverse proxy instead?
Here is how the serilog data is expected to travel:
Client application -->> Proxy Server -->> Corporate Domain Firewall -->> AWS

How to achieve load-balancing and failover between the two application servers through web server in WAS

i am new in WAS so i configured WAS and also web server IHS then i created 2 application server
so through the web server the client can access the application then the traffic over HTTP to one of two application servers i created
integrate web server and 2 application server as an single endpoint then traffic distribute over applications server
like thie img how can i do that
so please can anyone help me in this?
You have to install on IHS the WebSphere Application Server plugin. Then generate the plugin config file. IHS will pass any http requests it cannot resolve to the plugin which will try to resolve to the known applications. If the plugin is not functioning properly then follow the instructions here to collect data and open an IBM Support ticket.

HTTPS and Secured Websockets clarification

We have a web application that is required to run on HTTPS. We started to use a third party control that uses Websockets to connect to a windows service that will be running on the user computer. This page states that websockets should not be used in a mixed content environment. Is this security consideration still applies in this case (the websocket connection is not trying to connect to the same server that handled the https request)? If so, why would a websockets to a localhost would need to be secured? Isn't this just added complexity for no reason?

Redirecting all https outgoing requests through proxy from Windows Server 2012

I have windows server 2012 with all Internet outgoing traffic blocked. I have an application that needs to access a public web service through https. In our company we use IE proxy for http or https web requests via IE browser. Do you know how to use this proxy to allow the application sends https requests to this external Web Service?
Whether or not your application uses the system proxy settings (the ones IE uses and any other WinInet-based application uses) will depend on that application.
What is the application?

Oracle through proxy (squid proxy)

Can I connect to oracle server via proxy. I have a squid proxy running and I am trying to connect to my oracle machine via the squid proxy. This is due to the fact the oracle server is not directly accessible via my machine. Is this possible? Or is there any other way accessing oracle via a different machine?
Squid is a web proxy so, not surprisingly, it doesn't support the protocol an Oracle client uses to connect to an Oracle database. You can't use squid as a database proxy.
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