Re: Bypassing outgoing firewall restrictions

Not knowing your environment I'll ask if you can host a small partition that could live in the DMZ. Put the call there and route it through to the production partition. Not hard to set up but requires some resources (at least .1 processor, 2Gb memory and 2*17 GB storage(as a dead minimum))

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 1/31/2012 2:32 AM, Kevin Turner wrote:

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