Just ran across what looks like an "out of the box" solution for SCORM cross-server delivery. It is a recently released product called "WebDelegator" at
www.webdelegator.com. The price is reasonable ($99) and you can download a free 30 day trial without the hassles of preregistering. It runs on Windows platforms, even older versions, so it looks like it can be economically deployed using an existing box in a Windows shop. One of its features is the ability to forward outside the LAN. So, for example, lms.example.com could go to a LMS web server in a LAN, and content2.example.com could go to the web server of a content vendor outside the LAN. Basically all the LMS would have to to do is "munge" the launch URL for the SCORM resources to set the appropriate path. For example, if a resource href is
www.contentprovider.com/something/something.htm the actual URL the LMS passes to the client side of the SCORM RTE to launch a SCO could be contentprovider.example.com/something/something.com. A couple of caveats: I have not actually reviewed this product, only its published specs, and I cannot find a review of it online yet. Also, it appears that it may be limited to forwarding to specific IP addresses rather than the FQDNs for servers. The later one is not a showstopper, since the IP addresses of content servers are usually quite stable.
