Internet listener/publisher
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1. A communication system responsive to internet user access requests to an intranet-based web server across a firewall, comprising:
- a listener on said internet side of said firewall responsive to said access requests from said internet user, anda publisher on said intranet side of said firewall having access to said web server, maintaining a communication link with said listener, wherein said listener embeds said access requests within responses to communication requests from said publisher.
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Abstract
A communication scheme which allows Internet access to selected services behind a corporate firewall on a corporate Intranet with a publisher on the Intranet in communication with the Intranet web services and a listener on the Internet and is responsive to select requests from an Internet user which are embedded in responses received from the listener responding to queries from the publisher.
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17 Claims
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1. A communication system responsive to internet user access requests to an intranet-based web server across a firewall, comprising:
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a listener on said internet side of said firewall responsive to said access requests from said internet user, and a publisher on said intranet side of said firewall having access to said web server, maintaining a communication link with said listener, wherein said listener embeds said access requests within responses to communication requests from said publisher. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of communicating intranet services access requests from an internet user across a fire wall to an intranet-based web service, including:
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maintaining a communication link between an intranet publisher and said web server; maintaining a communication link between an internet listener and said internet user; maintaining a communication link between said publisher and said listener; and embedding, by said internet listener, said internet user access requests within responses to communication requests from said publisher. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of communicating intranet services access requests from a requesting internet user, across a firewall, to an intranet-based service, including:
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receiving communication requests from the intranet side of a firewall; receiving said access request from said internet user on the internet side of said firewall; encapsulating, on the internet side of said firewall, said access request in a response message; sending said response message in response to said communication request from the internet side across said firewall to the intranet side; forwarding said response message to an intranet-based web service; forwarding outward bound intranet-based web service responses across a firewall; and forwarding said intranet-based web service responses to said requesting internet user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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