INTERNET LISTENER / PUBLISHER FOR SECURE ACCESS TO INTRANET WEB SERVICES VIA FIREWALLS

摘要

A communication scheme which allows Internet (30) access to selected services behind a corporate firewall (54) on a corporate Intranet (40) with a publisher (58) on the Intranet (40) in communication with the Intranet (40) web services (52) and a listener (56) on the Internet (30) and is responsive to select requests from an Internet (30) user which are embedded in responses received from the listener (56) responding to queries from the publisher (58).