thanks for the clarification. ill be checking around java.net.SocketPermission to see if gae instances can access sockets directly then
On Apr 30, 11:25 am, "Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts)" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not as simple as just running up a server on port 80 and expecting > it to work. Google got a head of that little "backdoor". > > That is why you have to use their specific HTTP classes to connect to > the outside world. > > So unless MySQL is going to react to HTTP headers, you are not going to > get very far. > > > > > > > > al codans wrote: > > Hello, I managed to get an openbd cfml server running on gae using the > > opencf summit 2011 app graciously provided by Mr Woodward while i wait > > for the nightly build to be stable again. > > > I know that GAE doesnt support relational databases on its servers, > > but i wonder if anyone has tried connecting to a [my]sql server across > > the public internet? security issues aside (plaintext sql traffic is > > probably not a good idea) i get the impression that it could work > > provided the dbserver is listening on port 80 (it's the only port that > > gae servers can access, but i doubt google is doing stateful > > inspection to insure its http traffic) > > > I'd love to give it a shot, are there any jar mysql drivers that i > > could try using? > > > thanks in advance > > alessandro -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
