Using internal application to provide information to internet through a firewall

[Brad Shively <bshive1 @ novusnet . com>]

Has anyone figured out how to comminicate through a CGI program through
a firewall to internal application servers? I am trying to send 
information from our web server to our internal application servers,
retrieve data from databases, and then return the information back to
the internet user. Does anyone know how to do this through a firewall
that is secure? 

Brad Shively