RE: Web server with Telnet Functionality?

For best security it would be a good idea to have a separate server running
the port 80 game, and then it run a telnet to your machine on behalf of you.

Spent a long time looking for something like this once, try OpenConnect.  I
believe their website is www.openconnect.com.  It's a product that Cisco
used to sell, but they spun it off.

Works GREAT.  Does exactly what you want, and adds another layer of
security.  It's called OC://WebConnect.

Justin C. Haase
Sr. Technical Support Specialist - OutLink
Jack Henry and Associates - Allen, TX
www.jackhenry.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Shea, David [mailto:DShea@arctools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:59 AM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Web server with Telnet Functionality?


Has anyone used a telnet emulator that runs as or on a web server?  I'm not
looking for an embedded telnet (port 23) client, but rather a telnet
connectivity tool that looks and smells to the client like a web page.  Work
Station Gateway is one example, but that won't work for my purposes because
of the rotating port number problem (moving target).  I need something that
runs on Port 80 or Port 81.  I want to be able to sit at any Internet
Explorer session that's connected to the internet and pull up a telnet
session to my as/400 using only port 80 and HTTP as connectivity.  Basically
I need some way to get in without port 23.

WSG is a good start, but it requires ports other than 80 to work, and these
typically don't survive the trip through a firewall.  Often times, client
(customer) firewalls block telnet access to the outside world.

Has anyone used iSeries Web Access?  I know that it has a telnet style
component, but will it work for this purpose?  Does it use flaky ports like
WSG?

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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