[lagonze]

hi,
i want to view documents, who each have an url inside our domain and firewall, from an outside jsf web app. the server who hosts the web app is inside the firewall (demilitarized zone).
if i do a redirect to the dynamic url inside a java method in a bean on the server (method called when clicking a “view document” button in the client browser), our firewall forbids to see the document.
how can i solve this ?
i thought of 3 solutions but neither work :
1. doing a redirect inside a java method in a bean on the server – doesn’t work – why ?
2. how can i send the document from the server to the client, not the url, so that the client browser will be allowed to see it ?
3. another solution i tried : i tried to pass the url’s value (dynamic : different for each document, style {mybean.myURL} ) in the “to-view-id” value of a navigation case…. it doesn’t work, should it, and if yes, how exactly ? or are only static values allowed there (style mypage.jsf)
thx, help would be highly appreciated !
dom.
ps. it would work with a proxy but for security reasons we don’t want that….

[Riyad Kalla]

Dom,
Ultimately all your requests are going to break down at some level to HTTP requests… so if you have a firewall blocking those requests, you aren’t going to be able to get at your data behind the firewall regardless…. maybe I’m misunderstanding your request, but you need to determine a way to get at that data before hand, then figure out in your application how to wrap that. Right now it sounds like you are trying to wrap blocked calls.

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