Re: Not UDP? Re: Proposed HTML ping attribute

On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> If they're behind a firewall (e.g., inside a company), it won't get  
> out. This is why Java applet networking doesn't take off so well;  
> it can't use whatever proxy infrastructure is in place.

IIRC, outgoing UDP packets will work fine.  A firewall should only be
a problem for incoming UDP packets, as Tim indicated, unless it is a
very strict firewall.

....Roy