[UPHPU] Bi-directional Communication Through a Firewall

[Kyle Waters]

Kirk Ouimet wrote:
> I'll be running a Java application on thousands of machines, which machines I 
> am assuming will be sitting behind a firewall. I need my web server to push 
> commands to this application at will. I don't want to the machine to 
> periodically heartbeat to get tasks.
>   

Looks like I completely misunderstood what you are trying to 
accomplish.  If the web server is out side of the firewall then yes you 
can use tunnelling. Does the java app send out an http post/get request? 

I think the easiest thing to do would be to use an ssh tunnel. 

Kyle