Che, That is unfortunate, and terribly short sighted on their part. It is actually fairly easy to limit port 80 traffic to specific IP addresses, thereby limiting communication to their server only from the webserver itself. They could even set it up so that the web traffic used a non-standard port, to which your server requests would specify in the http requests. The security issue is valid, but they aren't thinking outside of the box, which will potentially cost them a worthwhile application.
Cutter _________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Che Vilnonis wrote: > Thanks Dan. My thoughts exactly. In my mind, the SCO software technicians > simply don't want to add a webserver because of the increased security > issues that would arise. And yes, it *would* be terribly slow. > > Che > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:09 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF and Legacy Systems... Need Some Advice/Help > > > Che, > > While it could be done, using FTP is going to be extremely sluggish--unless > you can manage to keep the FTP session open all day. > > If you have to log in for each request, you're going to end up adding a good > second or two to the entire process just for the FTP authentication > operations. That's going to seem like forever to a customer on their > website. > > If the client insists on FTP, I'd probably look into writing/finding an > application that would monitor a specific folder and push any new files to > the FTP server--something that would run as a service and would maintain the > FTP session. > > That way you'd simply write a file to one folder, it would be pushed to the > SCO server and then when it's done it would push a result back to another > folder on your server. > > It still might be too sluggish, but it would seem like the best method for > managing this problem. > > -Dan > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:32 AM >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: CF and Legacy Systems... Need Some Advice/Help >> >>Good morning all. I have a client that has a CF based website (built by >>myself around 5 years ago) and a SCO Unix Open Server backend. It's a >>legacy system with software that's been heavily modified over the last >>20-25 years. >>Neither system communicates with the other. >> >>The client is looking to streamline the order fulfillment process and >>to "get with 21st century". They wish to add a live inventory and live >>credit card processing feature to their website. >> >>Though I have done this type of work in the past, I have never worked >>with a legacy system to complete this. And, to complicate matters, the >>software technicians that administer the SCO Unix Open Server DO NOT >>wish to use a HTTP protocol to communicate between the two servers. >>They tell me that they >>wish to communicate to my CF server via the FTP protocol. >> >>A basic interaction would go something like this. A customer would >>attempt to place an item in their shopping cart. Before the item is >>added to the cart an "inventory check" is made. A CF process would >>write an XML file and FTP it to the remote SCO Unix Open Server. The >>remote server would then respond and push a response file back to the >>CF server. The CF server would process the file and determine a Yes/No >>answer and either add the item to the cart or display a message that >>the item is out of stock to the customer. >> >>I was wondering, can this even be done with CF and the FTP protocol >>instead of using HTTP? With HTTP, this would be relatively easy with >>the <cfhttp> tag. With FTP, I am not sure how the communication would >>work. :( >> >>In my mind, even if I used the CF Event Gateway to monitor a predefined >>directory for FTP traffic... I cannot figure out how to parse the FTP >>file and send the response back to "the right" shopping cart. >> >>Does that make sense? Any help anyone could provide me would be much >>appreciated. >> >>Regards, Che >> >> >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268810 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
