Description: It is customary for large enterprises to use a single staging server as a centralized source of software products. It has been a longtime practice to map that staging directory as a local directory and install. However, Oracle Universal Installer version 2.3 and above provides the facility to install Oracle software using HTTP. Installing over HTTP brings a more open and extensible procedure to the whole model. The model can extend to a more distributed space where the source and the destination reside on different sides of a firewall.In this document we discuss the scope and the limitations of our current offerings.