By default Red5 listens for RTMP connections on port 1935 and RTMPT  
connections on port 8080. Unless we want to change Red5 to listen for  
RTMPT connections on port 80 (and get into the hassle and security  
issues of running it as root), this means that we must explicitly  
code our clients to fall back to port 8080 instead of relying on the  
built-in Flash Player fallback mechanism (which falls back to RTMP  
tunneling through port 80).

So far so good. My question is this: does this actually solve  
anything? If a client is behind a firewall that blocks outgoing  
connections on non-standard ports, 8080 will be blocked too. Or is  
this simply intended to solve the case where the firewall is  
filtering by protocol rather than port? I'd like to hear how others  
are dealing with the fallback to RTMPT issue.

Thanks,
Ryan

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