Hi,

I have written an XML socket server and I want to be able to allow people to connect from behind a fire wall. Does anyone know how I would do this?

As far as I understand then if you cant connect on port xxxx then you send a request on port 80 to a cgi script or such like. How do I then maintain a persistant connection with the server? im not sure how this works.

Is it ok to maintain a connection with a cgi script, as far as I know when you connect on port 80 to a webserver the 2 machines negotiate a port to use between them selves so as not to tie up port 80 for other traffic. Is this correct?

Secondly, if I am correct about the above anyone know of any tutorials on communicating between 2 proccesses in perl. The cgi script and my perl server script would need to communicate so that messages were passed between them.

Thnx for any help

JamieD

In reply to XML socket server HTTP tunneling by JamieD

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