Re: Bypassing outgoing firewall restrictions -- WEB400

Mike,
No, RPG was a reference to the fact that we've always been able to attempt a connection using an RPG client like HTTPAPI.

BTW - The question was not intended to invoke a discussion concerning breach of policy, though I am not surprised at the responses.
There may be many web services that one could access from a development i5 to prove that there could be an ROI for the business before investing in a production app.
It would be nice to be able to make such development attempts without having to jump thru hoops.
I have not bothered in the past since it appears to involve deliberately setting up a proxy on a local PC (say).

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 7:56 a.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Bypassing outgoing firewall restrictions

Wait... you can write it in PHP and it's okay?? So what if it was in PHP on the i? Is that wrong? At that point, then why can't it be RPG?

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Like I said, anal means continued refusal on every attempt.
Easy means here's a PHP script.

Thanks, anyway
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 9:33 p.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Cc: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Bypassing outgoing firewall restrictions

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

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