Pass through web service

[VBAHole22]

I am trying to make a web service whose only function is to accept parameters and pass them along to another web service. Seems like this is going on a lot now as a way to keep from opening internal boxes to the internet. My problem is that I don't have Studio on the gateway web server.

 

So I create my gateway web service on one box and then move it out the the gateway web server to test it out. When I add my web reference to the internal web service I remove the localhost in the add web reference box. Yet when I look at the files created in the reference I see lots of 'localhost' in there. I could see where some of them may be refering to themselves by localhost but they aren't they are refering to where my target web service is. I don't think there should be anything localhost in there are at all.

 

Do I have to edit these manually? If so which ones and where?

 

Here is my setup:

 

Gateway Web Server to the public

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Pass through web service that accepts parameters

passes them back to my target server and accepts the response

Shows response to client

No studio

 

Target Web Server

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Internal box behind firewall

has the logic to process the web service request

Waits for requests from gateway.

Has Studio on it

 

 

It's a little convoluted but here is what I am doing now:

Create client ws on target. Add reference to target ws. Replace localhost with target machine name when adding. Compile. Move ws to gateway.

 

Am I getting this done correctly?