iPlanet Webtop proxy

[Neil Ratzlaff <neil.ratzlaff () ucop edu>]

I was asked to look at iPlanet Webtop for use in secure remote 
communications - encryption of email, telnet, TN3270, etc.  Maybe more 
things later.  Reading their web pages, I found a disquieting comment about 
java sandbox security, copied below.  The general approach often talks 
about how tunnelling through the firewall is so much better than opening a 
port to the server.  Does anyone know about this product?

Thanks,
Neil



The Netlet software works by downloading an applet, called a Netlet, from 
the iPlanet Webtop server that works in conjunction with a reverse 
multiplexing proxy on the server. Since both end points are controllable, 
the traffic can be encrypted.

The Netlet can also be used to redirect "emulation" applications, such as 
Citrix, pcANYWHERE Express, and GraphOn's GO-Joe X emulation. Normally 
these applications cannot get out of the Java "sandbox" and could only 
connect back to the system from which they were spawned. However, the 
Netlet completely eliminates this restriction transparently to the application.