Is it Possible to Connect to an RTD Server Outside of the Firewall?
Best performance will likely be obtained if the RTD server is executed on the local computer or anywhere inside of the firewall, and is connected to a feed that is outside of the firewall. For example, a company could develop an RTD server for their customers that is installed on each customer’s computer, and that RTD server could communicate with the company’s Web site to get data. However, Marc Levy’s article COM Internet Services discusses how the Tunneling Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) “allows a client and a server to communicate in the presence of most proxy servers and firewalls, thereby enabling a new class of COM-based Internet scenarios.
