
16 Chapter 1 • New Features in Visual Basic .NET
WARNING
Firewalls are explicitly created by network administrators to restrict
access on certain ports. You can bypass this by routing your data
through HTTP port 80. However, when using this approach, make sure
that you consider the security priorities not only of your own organiza-
tion, but also of the organization you are interfacing with.
Of course, to consume these Web services you need to use the new discovery
capability of Web services.This allows an external application to know what
methods are available, and what parameters are required to drive them.This is
performed by using the protocols HTTP ...