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About the HTTP Gateway

If the Distance Learning server is configured to provide HTTP Gateway functionality, a prospective session attendee who is located behind a firewall can choose to have his or her Distance Learning client software use an HTTP Gateway connection. Such a connection provides full functionality to the attendee during the Distance Learning session, but performance may be slower than a regular Distance Learning TCP/IP socket connection would provide. The following procedure describes how to provide HTTP Gateway functionality on your Siebel Distance Learning server.

To configure an HTTP Gateway

  1. Navigate to the Server Administration screen.

    2. NOTE:  For information on navigating in Siebel Distance Learning, see Navigating to the Server Administration Screen.

  2. Click the HTTP Gateway Administration hyperlink.

    3. The HTTP Gateway Administration page appears.

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  3. In the HTTP Gateway form, enter the requested information. You are required to provide an additional IP Address.
  4. Click Save.

    5. Your Siebel Distance Learning server is now configured with the Siebel Distance Learning HTTP Gateway. Attendees behind firewalls now have a better chance of communicating through their firewall's HTTP port.


 Siebel Distance Learning Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003