Re: [WinMac] Streaming Media Behind a Firewall


Chick Foxgrover(cfoxgrover[at]truenorth.com)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:54:36 -0500


I don't know if I can answer this but the little I know from looking at the
Real Player preferences is that the Real player uses port 1090 to connect
to a Real server via TCP (if it can't use http and many servers aren't set
up to use http) and perhaps the firewall administrator has to make that
port available to users behind the firewall. I'm no security expert so
perhaps this is not smart and still wouldn't do it, but that's my guess.

>Can anyone help this guy?
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>A request that might fit this list . . .
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>> 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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