{"id":848,"date":"2002-02-17T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2002-02-17T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2002-02-17T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2002-02-17T22:52:45","slug":"i_hateweb_servi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"I hateWeb services that require"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><STRONG>I hate<\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Web services that require me to open up more holes in my firewall to use.  Is there a good solution for this?  I hate having to open up more and more holds, it&#8217;s just more and more places for security holes to creep in.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>One thing that might be an interesting solution is some kind of switchboard service.  Basicly it is a server that passes off messages between machines that are behind firewalls.  It&#8217;s similar to a proxy server, but has some intelligence there to hold onto messages and pass them on to a specific user that is connected to it.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>The program using the service would then ping the server every minute (or longer if it doesn&#8217;t have to be instantaneous) and see if there were any messages for it.  Those messages could be something like an IM, and XML-RPC or SOAP call, or anything similar to that.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Of course the other big problem with this is coming up with something that everyone would buy into so that we don&#8217;t end up having a bunch of different services all offering kind of the same thing.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>What brought this up? There&#8217;s at least one new thing for Radio I can&#8217;t do without opening up some holes in my firewall at home and at work.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate Web services that require me to open up more holes in my firewall to use. Is there a good solution for this? I hate having to open up more and more holds, it&#8217;s just more and more places for security holes to creep in. One thing that might be an interesting solution is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}