There are a number of ways to configure RWP to use SSL to provide secure communications with Web clients for IBM products.
A typical configuration allows Web clients on the public Internet to access RWP through a firewall. Communications between RWP and the hosts supporting the Web product use the HTTPS protocol and are secured by SSL. Communications between RWP and the hosts on the corporate intranet use ordinary remote procedure calls (RPCs) and are not secure. Ordinary RPCs cannot communicate through a firewall, so you cannot place a firewall between RWP and the host servers.
In a typical configuration, for example, the Web address would be https://hostname/application_directory_name
In this example, the hostname is the name of the RWP server host and application_directory_name is the application-specific directory name. The default port for communications between Web clients and RWP is 443, the default for HTTPS.