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["Rick Horne" <rick_horne () hotmail com>]

Hello,
        I'm looking for information on the best way to allow our web server to 
access an internal database.  We are beginning an Internet commerce 
site.  I've heard of several techniques: 
1) The web server has wrapper/stub cgi programs that call cgi routines 
on a second external box that has permission to cross the firewall 
(a.k.a. a cgi reflector) 
2) Move the web server inside and proxy it out to the Internet.
3) Export database to external server and allow web server to hit that 
db.

I know that many thousands of companies are doing commerce but I've been 
unable to find a best practices document or other such info.

Thanks in advance for any comments, info, or pointers to where I can 
find some info.

Rick



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