When I encounter customer with such restrictions, I use my mobile hotspot for internet. I service a great many customers onsite in the LA area, and it’s been my experience that very few of them block traffic originating from within their own network. Health agencies and contractors are of course among them, and Government Contractors also have to enforce certain security restrictions depending on the information they have access to, in which case they typically also have Port Security, where if I plug my laptop into their network it will disable the port because I am not on the access list.
So there is always going to be security issues, and I can always get around them. Bob S On Feb 26, 2025, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: Sockets are by nature a 2 way communication. After I write to a socket I can read from that socket and get back whatever the receiver returns. In fact the whole premise of what I am doing depends on it. Yes, the socket connection is birectional, but establishing that connection requires two roles: someone has to dial the number (client), and someone else has to be sitting by the phone ready to pick up (server). Both roles can be present on both sides, creating a system of peers. But a firewall will make reaching the listening app difficult, and a good firewall will make reaching that app impossible unless host-specific forwarding configurations are set up. My most persuasive conversations on that with the IT staff at various orgs over the years have only reinforced my respect for the seriousness they bring to their work (in other words, when asked to have the org's firewall altered to support a departmental ad hoc usage, the answer is roundly "no"). _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
