[3402] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Where to locate external webserver ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philippe Parmentier)
Tue Oct 29 12:29:56 1996
From: mol@ecmwf.int (Philippe Parmentier)
To: bruggema@btmaa.bel.alcatel.be (VERBRUGGEN MARC GZ3 03/450.33.49)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:23:25 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu (www-sec)
In-Reply-To: <5127290929101996/A49005/BTMV98/11AAEA5D1A00*@MHS> from "VERBRUGGEN MARC GZ3 03/450.33.49" at Oct 29, 96 09:29:27 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In a previous mail , VERBRUGGEN MARC GZ3 03/450.33.49 wrote :
> 2) Suppose that I want to update the information from data in a database on a
> machine that is on the inside of the firewall : how do I fix that in a safe way
> ? A CGI based solution, using some kind of database connect will probably not
> wrk because the firewall will not allow it.
>
If writing on your databse in real time is not critical, the safest way
would be do write temporarly on a local database or file on your server, and
then have every so often a job on the machine inside your fire wall fetch
the necessary data from the web server. That way, you will even be able to
check on these data before actually do something with them (like test size
to avoid overflow, type etc).
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Philippe Parmentier E-mail : P.Parmentier@ecmwf.int
Snail : ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire RG2 9AX, U.K.
