Re: Bypassing outgoing firewall restrictions -- WEB400

You can't work around a firewall otherwise it wouldn't be much of a firewall. I think you'll either have to convince them to change the policy or find out what they will allow to talk to the web service and work out a way to talk to that instead. I think we have a similar situation where we have to use a windows .net application to interface with an SMSC. That interfaces on the back end via http to apache and our RPG based app.

On 31 Jan 2012, at 06:39, "Peter Connell" <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some anal network administrators refuse to allow the i5 to connect to simple webservices like geocode, or those that might offer weather or exchange rate info etc.
They seem to fear that an RPG program can somehow allow a virus or hacker in.
Anyone know any easy way round this?

Peter

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