I'd like to have the following architecture: AnyBrowser+SSL <-HTTP-> Apache+SSL+pcgi <--> firewall <--> Zope+Fnorb <-IIOP-> SQLBroker+ORBacus <-SQL*Net-> CorporateDatabase(Oracle7) The users access Zope from the Internet via an Apache+SSL server. For security reasons my network administrator (responsible for security) does not want to allow any Zope management activity initiated from the Internet. However I do want to manage Zope from the internal network while web clients are using my Zope application at the same time. (1) How can I access my Zope from the internal network? Can anyone suggests me a solution to my problem? A less important problem is that my network administrator also wishes a secured communication between the Apache+SSL server and Zope (over the firewall). This communication is the task of pcgi. (2) Is there any solution to do this? FYI: SQLBroker is an ORBacus CORBA server written in C++ providing centralized connection pooling and transaction management for any kind of clients of the corporate database. SQLBroker is written by me using Oracle7 OCI. Fnorb is an excellent (Python) CORBA ORB working perfectly with ORBacus (C++ and Java), which is also an excellent CORBA ORB implementation. All comments are highly appreciated. NM