Ports for web services?

[Chris Ashley]

I've just deployed an app to our live server. It makes heavy use of a
few external web services, and also exposes some as well. It worked
fine on all of our test machines, but on the live server we are getting
timeouts on the web service calls.

The network is pretty tightly locked down so I assume it may be a
firewall problem. What ports do we need to enable for:

(1) Outgoing web service access FROM our live server to an external
webserver
(2) Incoming web service access TO our live server from external
servers

Any help would be appreciated as my deadline is today for deployment!
:)

Regards,

Chris

[Peter Kelcey]

Re: Ports for web services?

Chris,

Unless the web services are specially configured to run on different
ports, then all you need is to have the port 80 and possibly 443. Port
80 if you are using http and port 443 if you are using https. Web
services require the same ports as if you were running a website. This
is the case for both incoming and outgoing calls.

You can easily test your outgoing applications by opening a browser on
you live app server and trying to browse to the external webservice. If
you can access the webservice via your browser, then you're in the
clear. Likewise, someone on the external machine can test in the same
way to ensure that they can get access to your web service.

Hope that helps

Peter Kelcey