Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:49:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:49:02 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: POST to secure server References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-85ABzAhxY/UBoisCo/mbtArLdg1Rnbjd1Kx9SUdjFq0UbhT+0Jl9Hex5NYmXr5/nIR5LxtIE4yZo+8e!KH7z+ok4cVObvbizQW1fhan736pY5FMDlR5NCNEAqmUhx9KEVh1QG04acTH7Ik7ftxuhRK92QaY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2243 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23146 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. 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 -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun