Firewall Issue

[vilehelm]

I may be talking out my arse here but I was having a conversation about the firewall issue with my head techie and he suggested using the telnet port 21 or ssh port 23.

maybe that will help.?.?.?

[Ricod]

If u people can connect to that port, that will definetely prevent the firewall from blocking it (I believe it blocks any port over 1024, right ?).

[20 Ton Squirrel]

I don't have the documentation right in front of me cuz I'm on my personal drive, but I believe that the XMLsocket only allows ports 1024 and above. And I dunno if Jesse or Strok want me taking over a telnet or SSH port for this.

[Ricod]

Oh right ! How annoying ! Hey everybody, lets use a port thats closed by firewalls ...

With other words, chances are that everybody with a firewall will be unable to chat ?

[20 Ton Squirrel]

Well, I believe it's a security issue that Macromedia put in on the socket. Anything below 1024 is reserved for specific server applications... like the HTTP daemon 80 or the SSH on 23. Yes, if we could use a low-end port it would get around most firewalls... it was a good idea, but sadly I doubt its gonna work.

[vilehelm]

Dagnabit, thought i was gonna sound all smarty like.

[Jesse]

We can't run it over our telnet or ssh ports as they are both in use and that create security issues.

[baskar]

hi

cant we overcome this firewall issue?

please let me know if you guys found any solution.'


regards
baskar

[jsonchiu]

Well, I think XMLSockets allow connecting to ports lower than 1024 after Flash 7. Just choose something like port 927. Also, what language are you using to write the socket server? I'm curious about that. I'm writing a socket server with PHP.