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Re: POST to secure server

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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. What's totally an option is for him to get 
educated a bit more on networking, and talk a bit more to the client, 
before tackling an unfamiliar (to him) technique that may be no 
timesaver at all.

> I thought the port forwarding solution was quite neat although I haven't
> tried it so I don't know if it would actually work.
>
> lipska
>
It would work, in all its various permutations (forward ports for a 
single request, open a tunnel for lengthier work etc etc). I do this 
often for things like exposing a DB on a protected box so that a client 
program on a different box sees it as being on localhost maybe with a 
different port.

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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