Extranet Support in the Enterprise Environment
In order to illustrate the support of extranets in enterprise environments, we will look at the example of the soft drink bottling company introduced in the previous chapter. The bottling company needs to procure various types of containers and other materials. It plans to do so by means of a bidding server that runs an application to manage the bids received for any specific component, such as containers. The bidding server will be placed so that it is accessible to the suppliers contracted by the company over the Internet. However, for security purposes, the bidding server must be accessible only to a selected subset of suppliers through the Internet.
The following two sections discuss how such ...
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