"Why", I hear you ask, "did you need to reconfigure the firewall, if this application is, as you say, web based?"

Because the web-based application is being run over Citrix.

Yes. Really.

For the non-technical reader, this is like... Um, help me out here, my analogy-generator seems to be broken... Like you need to get from New York to L.A., so you buy your airline ticket and then drive to L.A. airport, where you then rent a car.

Or something. Anyway, it's really, really dumb.

Update: Here's another try at an analogy:

You want to go get some lunch at the drive-through, so you go out and buy a truck, and then you put your car on the back of the truck, and when you get to the drive-through you unload the car and buy your lunch, and then you load the car back onto the truck and drive back to wherever you were.

Whereupon you find that they left out the fries which are the best part of the meal dammit!

In other words, it's totally pointless and stupid and makes everything harder for all involved, wasting huge amounts of time and money in the process and delivering a product which is greatly inferior to what you would have had if you'd just done the obvious thing in the first place.

In a word: Dumb.

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