To: Gryphon
  Re: Re: Jabber
  By: Gryphon to Netsurge on Fri Oct 05 2012 14:32:00

 > Honestly, I put the message bases on my webite because I wanted a way to
 > read them from work.  I can't log in from work because of all the firewalls
 > they put up.  I can read the messages via html on my phone.

It's also a great way to quickly find a message that you want to refer to, and
handy if you want to send a link to said message / thread to someone else in an
email / IM / whatever.  (For mostly that reason, I've been tinkering endlessly
with my Synchronet web interface, which does a few other things but is
primarily a web front end to the message areas.)

 > I've been playing with the various flash term programs to put them on the
 > site to allow for callers to telnet in, but so far it hasn't been working
 > out.

Unfortunately, Flash applications won't get you around this problem because
they will still ultimately need to connect to whatever port your telnet server
is listening on (as well as to whatever port your socket policy server is bound
to.)  Your options are to use a nonstandard telnet port (potentially with a
proxy of some kind) that falls within the range allowed by the firewall, or
perhaps to use an HTML5 telnet client which will connect via a WebSockets
service (which you could bind to any port you so chose.)

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