Just use nginx as a reverse proxy to send connections to the node service. That should eliminate most of these concerns, and it's a very common practice.
-- Charlie McConnell On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 09:27 AM, Joe Bloggs wrote: Hi all! So, I would really like to use Angular + Node for some of the data trends, pie charts, and bar graphs for real-time processing. However, I have to use a non-standard port (not 80 or 443) to make node work, obviously. The other thing is, we are running apache on port 80, so I will be using something like nginx on port 8080, and node on port 3000. The issue of security is raised. Here is the exact question a surly Administrator has asked me: So in order to use these services, the client would have to make a connection to these ports? If so, that doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. A lot of CUs firewall and/or filter non-standard outbound ports, so in addition to security considerations for incoming traffic, there’s the consideration that many of your clients may not be able to use whatever it is you’re trying to turn on. Is this some special service they’re trying to consume and would be willing to adjust their firewalls to access? How might one answer this question? Is this an inherently dangerous, un-secure environment? Thanks, Joe -- Job board: [1]http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: [2]https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-pol icy-md Old group rules: [3]https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Gui delines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [4][email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [5][email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit [6]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/59ddcadc-85db-48f3- 8170-3747f09ef508%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit [7]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. References 1. http://jobs.nodejs.org/ 2. https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md 3. https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/59ddcadc-85db-48f3-8170-3747f09ef508%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer 7. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/1403807744.5917.134939317.04E67C47%40webmail.messagingengine.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
