Exposing a Single Port for Multiple HOOPS SC Server Viewers on Azure

[cad-developer]

Hello TechSof3D,

I have built the HOOPS SC Server following the Server tutorial provided in the HOOPS SDK. The current setup spawns multiple viewers, each running on a separate port. We’ve successfully deployed this setup to Azure.

We would like to expose only a single external port (e.g., 55000) and internally route the traffic to the appropriate spawned viewer process, allowing multiple clients to connect through this one exposed port.

Is it possible to achieve this kind of functionality with the HOOPS SC Server architecture? If so, could you please advise on the recommended approach or any best practices for implementing this?

Thank you,

[tino]

Hello @cad-developer,

The setup you mentioned should be possible. More details can be found in our docs.

There are a few forum posts as well that may be of some help, such as:

HOOPS Communicator HTTPS server with reverse proxy

Introduction Although HOOPS Communicator SC server can be configured with HTTPS server like this article: HOOPS Communicator server with HTTPS (SSL) , there is a non-standard port: 11182 that is open to the internet, posing a security risk. We’ll need to close it by restricting the non-standard port to the private environment. It’s important the user minimizes exposure to the public zone. This article explains another way to configure SC server with HTTPS server using reverse proxy of nginx. I…

Thanks,
Tino