[omniORB] omniORB-to-omniORB over internet

[Michael J. Donahue]

Assuming that omniORB uses a Stream (TCP) socket.  (I don't know for sure if it
does.)

If your firewall is configured with SOCKS,  on the UNIX side you could use the
runsocks preloader as you run omniNames and your server apps to open listening
ports on the SOCKS firewall.  It is available for most flavors of UNIX under the
GNU public license.

Windows is a little different, but you have a few options there too.  You could
use SocksCap32 to launch your app which basically does the same thing as
runsocks, or you could use a product like NEC's e-Border client that enables
applications to be socksified transparently.  (www.eborder.nec.com)  Lastly, you
could write your own Layered Service Provider to transparently socksify your
communication through a SOCKS firewall, but this is not a trivial task.

Good Luck,

- Mike Donahue





Ben Miller <Ben.Miller@Mercia.Com> on 08/09/2000 09:33:24 AM

To:   "'omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com'" <omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com>
cc:    (bcc: Michael J. Donahue/MCLEOD)
Subject:  [omniORB] omniORB-to-omniORB over internet




Hi all,

Has anyone implemented an omniORB server which has requests made upon
it by a JavaIDL applet/application on a client?  I am wanting to do
this but the main problem is that unless the JavaIDL ORB can send its
requests to the omniORB ORB using HTTP, the requests will not get
through client-end firewalls.  We are trying to create software that
works in this way and is installed at customer sites with the least
amount of maintenance possible.  Our client and server machines are
Windows x86 (for now), but we hope to port the server -side code to
Unix in the future.

I realise that this is a large, multi-facetted issue, but any ideas?

Regards,
Ben Miller



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