Re: Web Server Network Setup Questions

["Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a socket client that runs on web server and talks to a socket
server on the AS400.  All request are passed from the web server to the
AS400 under application control.  These request are processed and the
results are returned to the web server, which then formats the data as
necessary.  This socket client is an API call within the web server
instance.  We only have to open one port from our web server IP to our
iSeries through a firewall.  Of course any attempt to submit request
with out proper formatting will cause the iSeries job to ignore it, if
our error handling works, or crash and not give any further access to
the iSeries.

We feel that this is more secure than opening up OBDC or some other
standard interface to our data and applications.  And I know that others
disagree with me so lets not start that rant again.


Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:37 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] Web Server Network Setup Questions

While this may not be a usual forum for this, this IS iSeries related. I
am just querying the others out here how they do it.

We have been using an outside vendor for web hosting and are just now
going to be bringing our web site in-house. From what I understand (I
just jumped
in) there will be a seperate line for the web server (Windows 2003) than
our regular internet connection to keep things out of the internal
network.
However, we want to do a bunch of stuff with our iSeries data (mostly
inquiry) which of course is in the internal network. How have you setup
your connection for things like this? We have ideas, but have no idea
what works best in practice.