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Re: POST to secure server

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On 03/28/2013 06:54 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
> On 28/03/13 09:19, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>> On 03/28/2013 05:49 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
>>> On 27/03/13 23:11, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>>> On 03/27/2013 09:34 AM, RVic wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for all your responses. I'm finding out from the client that
>>>>> they have no exposed URLs that my servlet call can come in on, and
>>>>> they need to somehow provide that on their end.
>>>> [ SNIP ]
>>>>
>>>> Errr, to me that means that someone set up the servlet engine
>>>> (Tomcat or
>>>> whatever) with HTTP/HTTPS ports that are blocked by a firewall. And
>>>> they
>>>> are simply saying that they need to open up those ports.
>>>>
>>>> I'd let the client do just that.
>>>
>>> The OP has already said that due to 'academic bureaucracy that is not an
>>> option although I agree it's the ideal solution.
>>
>> He also used the term "client". If that's actually the relationship, to
>> me that changes the entire equation here. The OP is clearly talking to
>> these folks, based on his wording above, so it does sound like there is
>> a work relationship.
>>
>> Given that, the client opening up a port or two in a firewall is
>> absolutely an option.
>
> Well possibly, I remember trying to get root access to a Solaris box
> back in the day when I was a drunken bum, er I mean student, it was
> something akin to asking for access to the deans personal bank account.
> There were meetings and meetings and meetings to plan meetings ... it
> took three weeks just to get the cave dwelling troglodyte who managed
> these things to set up a single Solaris box, and I was writing software
> *for* the University.
>
> As I see it, if the target server has ssh up and the developer can use
> ssh to implement a solution then that means he can do so without waiting
> an eternity for some doofus to open up a port then that sounds like a
> solution to me, in fact, it's such a neat solution that I'm tempted to
> get a tunnel set up to one of my remote servers and give it a go.
>
> Incidentally, Zenmap reports three open ports on moonprod.com one of
> which may be an httpd on 80 so it looks like they have it fairly tightly
> locked down.
>
> lipska
>
> Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer
> and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun

I think everyone's been in situations where infrastructure requests are 
handled glacially, or are rejected, or are modified.

I'm thinking I (we) don't know enough about what's going on here. We 
know next to nothing about the client's network setup; we have no idea 
who exactly the OP talked to (a networking type, or a barely technical 
customer?).

Like I said, I use exactly this SSH approach now, and have used it in 
the past. I can tell you this, I've never used it for a webserver. That 
is unusual enough that to me it signals lack of information that the OP 
would do well to acquire.

AHS

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POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-26 04:46 -0700
  Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-26 13:43 +0000
  Re: POST to secure server markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-26 09:51 -0700
  Re: POST to secure server Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-26 19:00 -0700
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-27 05:34 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-27 13:07 +0000
    Re: POST to secure server Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-03-27 20:11 -0300
      Re: POST to secure server markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-27 19:38 -0700
      Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-28 08:49 +0000
        Re: POST to secure server Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-03-28 10:17 +0100
        Re: POST to secure server Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-03-28 06:19 -0300
          Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-28 09:54 +0000
            Re: POST to secure server Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-03-28 20:51 -0300
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-27 06:24 -0700
  Re: POST to secure server Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-03-27 14:37 +0100
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-27 06:45 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-03-27 15:08 +0100
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-27 08:39 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-27 17:30 +0000
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-27 13:26 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-03-28 10:05 +0100
    Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-28 10:34 +0000
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-28 05:02 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-28 12:22 +0000
  Re: POST to secure server RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com> - 2013-04-02 07:07 -0700
    Re: POST to secure server Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-04-02 22:39 +0200
    Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-04-03 10:39 +0100
      Re: POST to secure server Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-03 15:32 +0200
        Re: POST to secure server lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-04-03 15:34 +0100

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