On Fri, 28 May 2004, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > any secure site will only allow port 80 or port 443 for web ... > > It's not the server I'm testing, it's the user. Some streaming video
that "secure site" works both ways ... user or server .. > (RealPlayer) doesn't come through on regular ports so the client wants a > little app that they can ping at the *user* to figure out if they should > send RealPlayer or something else. (I'm working on an auto-detection > "suite" and my partner is working on the associated wizard/help files.) > Basically we don't want to present the user with the option of RealPlayer > if the port isn't even open for the user to receive the stream. grab the plug-info from the users browser ( if its setup to tell you ) use nmap or any port scanner to see if you can scan that port you want on their machine if both are "okay" send um the 10M *.ra or 1MB *.swf file or anything else c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

