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Re: Firewalls?

From Hup at AddALL book searching and price comparison on 07 October '98
adding to Firewalls? posted by Tim Stockton

>O.K I am very confused on firewalls, I receive a few calls each day wanting to fill out my order form, but say they are behind a firewall from work. So? does this just not permit them to use my secure order form, or does it not permit them to use any type of e-mail form? If i make a simple e-mail form up with all information needed except for asking credit card info, which they can call in later, will that solve this problem? What does a firewall actually hinder i guess i am asking?

Email form should not be the problem, as your users can access your web site,
in term of technical, web access is as same as posting if you use "GET" method
(no matter what kind of firewall they are using).

But, secure order form(it is https) is different story. Not all firewall open
the https port or installed https proxy, so, I believe this is the problem.

How to solve the problem?
You may put a tel#, or like Amazon, have a "standard" form, without secure form.

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>>O.K I am very confused on firewalls, I receive a few calls each day wanting to fill out my order form, but say they are behind a firewall from work. So? does this just not permit them to use my secure order form, or does it not permit them to use any type of e-mail form? If i make a simple e-mail form up with all information needed except for asking credit card info, which they can call in later, will that solve this problem? What does a firewall actually hinder i guess i am asking? > >Email form should not be the problem, as your users can access your web site, >in term of technical, web access is as same as posting if you use "GET" method >(no matter what kind of firewall they are using). >But, secure order form(it is https) is different story. Not all firewall open >the https port or installed https proxy, so, I believe this is the problem. >How to solve the problem? >You may put a tel#, or like Amazon, have a "standard" form, without secure form.