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|    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.               --- TriToss (tm) Professional 11.0 - (Unregistered)        * Origin: Archaic Binary (77:1/186.0)              --- Internet Rex 2.29        * Origin: The gateway at Diskshop BBS (1:250/8.1)    |
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