Hello Peter, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Peter B<[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, a socket server would make my app easier to program, >> but it would also make it unusable for too many users >> (those behind corporate firewalls). > > Does this help wrt tunnelling through firewalls? Seems to allow a > socket to be established on Port 80 >
yes, I successfully used web proxy tunelling to read mails at my Unix PC at home (SSH through port 443, http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/goto-san-connect-1.85/src/connect.html ) at my 2 previous jobs (big telcos), but this is not the scenario I was asking about. I'm just curious to share experience with other AS-developers, who prefer HTTP requests to socket applications (because the former work for more users and do not require any special tricks on the user side) Also from my experience your app can't just listen at the port 80 and hope that the corporate users will be able to connect to it using sockets, this just won't work Regards Alex _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
