Discoverer Plus Firewall only 80 and 443

Hello, I'll try to be as clear as possible:
My platform software:
Windows 2000
9ias 1.0.2.2.2.
Portal 3.0.9.8.4
Discoverer 4i.
I only have access to ports 80 and 443.
I've read that the only way to get Disco Plus to work without opening up a specific port is to load the Gateway software onto a different machine.
I'm trying to get Visibroker Gateway software to run on a different machine than the http machine.
Has anybody ever done this in the past? If so, can you please give me step by step on how to do it.

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