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Re: Testing REST APIs....

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:49 PM Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But I want someone else (or me) to call the api(s) who is not using the
vpn. Unfortunately I can not configure the IBM i I'm working on to be
accessible from outside the vpn.

If you want your API to be callable from "the Internet at large" then
you MUST involve someone who handles your network configuration, and
you have to convince them to expose SOMETHING to the Internet.

If they won't, under any circumstances, expose the IBM i to the
Internet, then the only alternative is to set up some other machine
(which will serve as an intermediary) which is both within the local
network (to access data from the IBM i, assuming that is the point of
the API) and also exposed to the Internet. (The magic buzzword for
this might be "DMZ" but I am not a network person myself.)

With the latter setup, most people use a Windows or Linux machine to
be the intermediary.

John Y.

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