On 19 Feb 2001, William Wise wrote: > > I'm thinking about filtering on the firewall. It's possible to open > port 80 on a firewall but filter non-http traffic. The big benefit to > HTTP/XML/SOAP in the webservices architecture is that it allows > cross-platform messaging through firewalls whereas the ports commonly > associated with IIOP, DCOM, and RMI are generally blocked by firewalls. > More intelligent filtering could disallow simple fnp over http but I'm > wonder if using SOAP would make such filtering harder to implement since > alot of "legitimate" traffic will be flowing across and it would be > painful to have to block all SOAP traffic. > > I'm not sure if this notion stands up under scrutiny or how easy it > would be to block a particular kind of SOAP traffic so I was hoping for > some input from you folks who know more than I about these issues. >
Ah. Sorry, I can't help you there. My only experience with firewalls is how to open a hole in them without raising the ire of sysadmins :) (a reverse connect protocol from work to my home machine). _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
