Accessing images stored within a firewall??

[Goalie35]

We're creating a site for our client and need to allow them to view scanned order form images. These order form images are stored on servers within our corporate network however, for obvious reasons, our clients' intranet site will be stored on a server outside of our network (i.e. outside of our firewall). So we're having problems trying to give permissions to this intranet site to be able to view these images within our company's firewall. Has anyone ever encountered this issue? Also, if it helps, the app is developed in the 1.1 framework and the server storing the images is using Sql Server 2000 and IIS 5.0. Thanks. -Goalie35

[Jim Conigliaro]

You shouldn't really be trying tp make the images directly accessible outside the firewall. The best way to handle this is to create a distributed architecture in which a machine inside the firewall streams the images to a machine in the DMZ which can then be streamed to the client. A simple web service should be sufficient. On your machine inside the firewall, create a web service that, given an image name/path, reads the file and returns a byte array representing the file data. On the web machine, call this web service and perform a BinaryWrite of the byte array.

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