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   Message 538 of 787   
   Zharvek to All   
   Re: Jabber   
   11 Oct 12 13:51:00   
   
     To: Echicken   
   E> Unfortunately, Flash applications won't get you around this problem b   
   E> they will still ultimately need to connect to whatever port your teln   
   E> is listening on (as well as to whatever port your socket policy serve   
   E> to.)  Your options are to use a nonstandard telnet port (potentially    
   E> proxy of some kind) that falls within the range allowed by the firewa   
   E> perhaps to use an HTML5 telnet client which will connect via a WebSoc   
   E> service (which you could bind to any port you so chose.)   
       
   I used to use rinetd to forward port 23 to another network and then   
   routed to a specific machine for the flash application. I use SSH   
   tunnels to do the same thing now.    
      
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