Accessing a Windows Service Host Via a Browser?

[Jim Bayers]

I have three servers

Campus Server
|
Secure Server
|
Public Server

Do to the sensitive nature of the data, my network nazi wants me to
access the campus server via the secure server. There won't be a web
server on the Secure server, just the public server. So people will
browse to the public server which has a http server, type in some
variables and get a report.

Thanks to this forum, I found:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT15.asp

And it works! It listens on port 8085. and you can access it with

TcpChannel chan = new TcpChannel();
ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(chan);
Calculator calc = (Calculator)Activator.GetObject(
typeof(RemoteObject.Calculator),
"tcp://localhost:8085/RemoteObject.Calculator");
if (calc == null)
System.Console.WriteLine("Could not locate server");
else
Console.WriteLine("21 + 21 is : " + calc.Add(21,21) );

The problem is that once I put this on secure, how can I access it via a
browser on public? I've been searching the net for an example to no
avail.

 

[Jeff Dillon]

You mean access a SQL database sitting on the Campus server? How about
simply replicating a read-only copy of the database to Secure. Then access
the database easily from Public.

Or create a web service on Secure that talks to Campus, and access it from
Public

Jeff