What is HTTP tunneling viz. RMI?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=77164 Created: Jun 17, 2000 Modified: 2000-06-21 13:59:18.491 Author: Suja Rao (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=62310) Question originally posed by Nagaraj Sivashanmugam (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=11016 HTTP tunneling is a method that RMI uses to make calls through a local firewall. To get across firewalls, which disallow regular outbound TCP connections but permit HTTP through a proxy server, RMI makes use of HTTP tunneling by encapsulating the RMI calls within an HTTP POST request. The reply too is sent back as HTTP-encapsulated data.