Background: I have a web published NT4/IIS4 web server behind an ISA server. A Cold Fusion application on the IIS4 web server needs to establish an outbound SSL session to another web server on the internet to gather some data - this session is failing. I tested this from another non-published test web server and the session would work IF I installed the firewall client on the server. Question 1: any idea what I need to do to ISA to allow the outbound secure session from a published web server? Question 2: if I can't directly resolve the problem, what would be the issues with the firewall client on a published web server? Thank you, Scott Talley The Combined Group phone: 972.247.2621 x829 fax: 972.247.2622 e-mail: stalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx