[3463] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Where to locate external webserver ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Royans K Tharakan)
Tue Nov 5 22:46:59 1996
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:23:19 +0500
To: "VERBRUGGEN MARC GZ3 03/450.33.49" <bruggema@btmaa.bel.alcatel.be>,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Royans K Tharakan <rkt@poboxes.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 09:29 AM 10/29/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Here are a few questions :
>
>1) I asssume that a webserver with public company information is best located
>on the outside of the firewall. Are there any extra precautions to be
taken to
>avoid that "others" can write to the webserver environment ?
>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.
Sorry for the ignorance, but won't it be a better idea to make the inside
computer connect to the server rather than the other-way-round. That should
work out the Firewall problem also as you can still ignore incomming connects.
---RKT---
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