[WinMac] Streaming Media Behind a Firewall
John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:32:49 -0600
Can anyone help this guy?
A request that might fit this list . . .
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:05:37 -0800
> From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com>
> Subject: ?? - Streaming Media Behind a Firewall
>
> This request is from:
>
> Robert Cameron <mailto:rcameron97@mindspring.com>
>
> I work at a company that designs corporate websites. The company has
> traditionally been Windows-centric, but since I started several
> months ago I have noticed a lot of Macs around: the graphics
> department is mostly Mac, various people in all sorts of positions
> have Macs at their desks, and in the testing group where I work, we
> regularly test now with a 68K Mac and a PowerMac. We have a few older
> ones on hand to suit clients.
>
> I have become the "expert" for the Macs, mainly because most of the
> other testers don't use them. Thanks to tips I have found on this
> list, I have done some seemingly "amazing" things with the Macs (most
> recently connecting to several servers in the graphics department
> while experimenting with TCP/IP and Ethernet. Oops!) But my next
> trick needs to be a doozy:
>
> Most of the computers in the testing lab are inside a firewall. I had
> no problem getting all web browsers to access sites outside the
> firewall (except AOL, but AOL doesn't work inside firewalls anyway),
> but the problem I have now is how to receive streaming media. One
> site we developed extensively uses RealPlayer (www.real.com) to
> deliver streaming audio and streaming video straight to your web
> page. The Windows computers inside the firewall are able to test this
> from the live site by being "socksified"; that is, someone found
> <http://www.hummingbird.com> who offers a free product to allow just
> this thing. Something to do with a DLL file it installs that allows
> you to receive streaming media (and play Yahoo java games, for that
> matter) straight to your Windows computer. Of course, it has no
> answer for the Macintosh platform.
>
> I have looked everywhere for anything that might allow this. All I've
> found are message boards looking for the same thing: something that
> allows a signal to be bounced back from outside to the computer
> inside the firewall to allow the receipt of streaming media.
>
> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Any answers will be greatly
> appreciated. This problem didn't crop up until the site was a month
> from going live.
>
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