databases restricted by ip address

[David R. Newman]

It is worth checking exactly how the database manufacturers restrict 
access.

If the interface is completely via HTML forms and it returns HTML pages, 
there is a good chance that they use basic http authentication. This 
means that there will be something like an .htaccess file in the 
directory of their CGI scripts that restricts access to an IP range. You 
could simply edit that file to include a few extra user names restricted 
by password, whether or not your suppliers provide a facility to do this. 
(They may not really understand http yet).

If they use some other method of restricting access, the above will not 
work.
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Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast,
School of Managment, BELFAST BT7 1NN, UK
Tel. +44-1232-335011 FAX +44-1232-249881
http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/ mailto:d.r.newman at qub.ac.uk