Re: Passing information between an external client and an internal server

[Bret Watson <Bret.Watson () ticm com>]

>    Client  -----  Web Server
>      |
>      |
>   Firewall -----  Middleware/web server ----- MF

My suggestion...

Do the connection via the web-server instead.. you can write a simple byte
pusher to connect to the internal webserver if you want. That way you
contrain the address space a fair bit. You could also have the webserver
encrypt the data before sending it - or have it open a SSL connection to
the internal webserver...

Cheers,

Bret


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