Server Side Processing Help

[mich13]

Looking for help resolving a problem on a website we wrote. The submit page
actually generates an XML packet which is submitted to an internal server for
processing by an asp page to an ERP system's database. The internal server is
running IIS and has a submit.asp ready to process the XML packet via a custom
interface to our ERP. The problem I am having is that it works fine when
running the page while on our internal network but the minute you aren't on our
network (like all our customers are, truly on the outside) The submit fails
because it has no way to find the internal server. The web server itself can
contact the internal dbase server, but it seems that I need to do some sort of
true server side processing.

Does anyone know how I might tweak my code in order to accomplish what I
describe above for my customers? Any and all help is appreciated! :-)

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

On 2005-05-07 07:20:35 -0500, "mich13" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> said:

> Looking for help resolving a problem on a website we wrote. The submit
> page actually generates an XML packet which is submitted to an internal
> server for processing by an asp page to an ERP system's database. The
> internal server is running IIS and has a submit.asp ready to process
> the XML packet via a custom interface to our ERP. The problem I am
> having is that it works fine when running the page while on our
> internal network but the minute you aren't on our network (like all our
> customers are, truly on the outside) The submit fails because it has no
> way to find the internal server. The web server itself can contact the
> internal dbase server, but it seems that I need to do some sort of true
> server side processing.

If it works from within your network but not from outside (as well as
based on what you're describing) my first guess would be that you need
to open up your firewall to allow this internal server to be seen, or
you need to set up some sort of proxy on a public-facing server so
outside traffic can reach your internal server. This is a discussion
probably best had with your networking folks to see what their
suggestions are as well as what they're comfortable with from a
security standpoint.

Matt
--
Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[ksmith]

And ColdFusion fits in to this picture, where?

[mich13]

Well, my thought in looking through the server side processing doc from the
Cold Fusion library was that there might be a custom tag that would allow me to
direct the submit URL action to be performed server side, therefore allowing my
webserver to communicate with the internal server and only post the resulting
page for the external user. I saw that there were some examples on how to do
server side processing for Flash and the like but it wasn't clear how I might
(or if I could) use the same method to achieve what I wanted to do here. As I
don't really want to open up this internal server to the external world.