Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Tunneling

Let's say you want to specify the t3 protocol for some types of client traffic. You may run into a problem where your network requires that all client traffic must come through a protocol-filtering firewall that supports just the HTTP protocol. What do you do? You can tunnel the t3 connection requests over the HTTP connections. Tunneling enables a client request using a certain protocol to be sent over a different protocol. In this case, the client traffic using the t3 protocol is tunneled over (or under!) the HTTP protocol. Of course, tunneling will result in slower network communications due to overhead of HTTP for communicating a client's request.

You can configure tunneling when you select a network protocol, as shown in the previous ...