HTTP tunneling is a way of getting things like RMI past a firewall by
wrapping the calls as HTTP. That get around the fact the normal RMI (for
example) is not usually done on port 80 and the reluctance of system
administrators to open any other ports up on the server. I think there are a
couple of articles still in java.sun.com if you search under "RMI
programming". Otherwise, book wise, there are mentions of it in Java Server
Programming J2EE Edition. Usually it is just a matter of plugging in a
tunneling application/set of classes so there is no a huge amount to it if
you are not implementing tunneling yourself which is maybe why there is not
a huge amount of info on it.

chanoch


-----Original Message-----
From: rgsiva [mailto:rghsiva@e...]
Sent: 18 April 2001 07:13
To: Servlets
Subject: [servlets] HTTP tunnelling




Hi Gurus=20W
What is HTTP Tunnelling .How it is done.Is there any detailed material 
for servlet tunnelling.
Thanks in advance
with regards
Jothi