...I'm thinking of firewalls I deployed in the finance industry. Don't know how common that level of strictness is (it certainly isn't in the IT industry itself, but we're atypical). On 18/01/2008, at 12:43 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > 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 > -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.comReceived on Friday, 18 January 2008 02:16:07 UTC
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