You can place Internet Gateway and HTTP Gateway between any JP1/Software Distribution nodes to convert the communications protocol between those nodes from the JP1/Software Distribution-specific protocol to HTTP. Therefore, if your environment is Web-enabled, JP1/Software Distribution can be used over the Internet without the need for complex setup. If HTTP is already enabled through a firewall and if you use the Internet option, you do not need to perform the firewall setup described in 6.1.5 Using JP1/Software Distribution in a firewall environment in the manual Description and Planning Guide.

The following figure shows protocol conversion using Internet Options.

Figure E-1 Protocol conversion using Internet Options

Internet Options support HTTPS using SSL, so the security level is therefore maintained.

Depending on your proxy server and the Web server, the maximum data size that can be sent at one time may be limited. In such a case, the Internet Options can split a file to be sent by JP1/Software Distribution into smaller sizes.

When HTTP Gateway and client are installed on a notebook computer and you connect to the Internet with a dial-up connection, you can use the auto-dialing facility to establish connection.