Revlets and firewalls

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Wed Dec 9 11:08:40 EST 2009


Hi Luis,

As I said, normally when this occurs in my standard Rev app, the user 
need only create a firewall exception for my app. Communication usually 
works fine after that.  Are you saying this same approach won't work 
with a revlet?

Thanks.
Richard



Luis wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> The app location is irrelevant if it's a firewall issue. In this 
> instance the firewall would need ports 20 and 21 open for ftp to go 
> through.
> Usually port 80 (or 8080) is open as this is used for standard http 
> browsing protocol.
>
> If you try to telnet (from a command line/terminal prompt to port 21 
> (telnet 'ipaddress' 21 or telnet domain.com 21) and you do not receive 
> a positive response then the port is blocked.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luis.
>
>
> On 9 Dec 2009, at 15:07, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm finding some situations in which my revlet cannot communicate to 
>> the outside via: put x into url "ftp://xxxxxx" because of firewall 
>> issues. Normally, I would instruct the user to create a firewall 
>> exception for a regular Rev app, since the location of the app is 
>> identifiable. How would one do this with a revlet? Is the revlet 
>> residing somewhere locally for a time, or is it in memory?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
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