firewall

How do you add firewall permission to an app during installation?

I've heard that you can, during installation, add an exception for your app to give permission for it to access the internet through the firewall. Anyone know how to do this? ...

If I have multiple apps accessing the internet through one ActiveX EXE will just the ActiveX need Firewall persmission?

Here's one for a firewall expert: If I have an ActiveX EXE (created in VB6) and use that for several other VB6 apps to access the internet, will I need to only get permission from the Firewall (if it blocks the access) for just the ActiveX EXE, or for each app? ...

WCF service behind ISA Firewall 2004

Hi, I'm having an issue when trying to access a WCF service behind an ISA Firewall 2004. Apparently my Windows client can connect and receive data when using Buffered mode but not when using Streamed mode. The error I'm getting is 400 Bad Request - Unsupported headers, so I'm not sure what Streamed mode adds to the message headers that...

How to publish internal data to the internet - as simple as possible

We have a .net 2-tier application where a desktop program is talking to a database. We support MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and Oracle 9, 10 and 11. The application is sold, not as shrink-wrap, but pretty close. It is quite important for us that the installation and configuration is as easy as possible as installation instructions are...

Push data in Silverlight with Sockets through proxy?

Hi. I currently need to make the silverlight 4 in-browser app that can receive push messages from the server. I presume using sockets is the best way, and will also allow a connection between server and client to transfer data and update the page. But I am worried about firewalls and/or proxy servers. Is it possible to have push technolo...

WCF service blocked by Windows Firewall

Hi, I've got a WCF service using a HttpBinding. The service is running in a self hosting process (A Windows Service) and this process is inside the Windows Firewall exceptions list. If the Firewall is active and I'm trying to access the service using a C# client or Internet Explorer, the service does not respond. But if the Firewall is...

Socksifying a Java ServerSocket - how to approach

I would like to have a Java program running on network A have a ServerSocket living on another network B through a proxy. I have played with a SOCKS5 proxy (which works) but it appears that all the proxy facilities in Java only work with client connections, not with ServerSockets (no constructor taking a Proxy argument). Asking Google ...

What port is used by Java Web Start?

Hi, May I know what port is used by Java Web Start? If I want to connect a Java Web Start client to a Java Web Start server, what port I need to open at the server side so that the client can connect to it? I want to set up a firewall in the server machine but I don't know which port I should open. Thanks. ...

What port is used by Java RMI connection?

Hi, May I know what port is used by Java RMI connection? If I want to connect a Java client application to a Java server application using RMI connection, what port I need to open at the server machine so that the client application can connect to it? I want to set up a firewall in the server machine but I don't know which port I shou...

Can't reach wicket quickstart from outside firewall

I have a project which, for purposes of server configuration, is just a wicket quickstart archetype. I've added some application code, but haven't really done anything to change the default jetty configuration. I can run and test my application locally using: http://localhost:8080 or: http://bekkar:8080 (my PC's network name) or: http:/...

How I can implement an bad list in a WebService using PHP

I have an public API how needs authentication and block all users who try brute force... I'm thinking in log all operations in /var/log/auth.log using syslog, and configure fail2ban to add IP from user in deny list of iptables. This is a good solution? Any ideas? ...

WCF Client + Windows Service + ISA = (407) Proxy Authentication Required

"Not this again" I hear you say. Yeah, I know. But this one is different... I think. The scenario: I have a Windows service (running as SYSTEM) that consumes a remote WCF service. The machine sits behind an ISA proxy (no domain, and no proxy username/pwd) and I have added the proxy to my app.config. Here it is: <system.net> <defaultP...

Installing Ruby Gems behind a Proxy

It appears this topic has been covered a few times before, but those solutions have only gotten me so far. I now have my sources properly updated and I am able to query for gems without an error but I keep getting empty results for my searches. I installed rubysspi and copied over the spa.rb file as mentioned in the readme. The readme...

Is it possible to write a firewall in python?

Hey everyone, Is it possible to write a firewall in python? Say it would block all traffic? Thanks! Jake ...

GIT Pull & Clone times out

I've recently set up a small turnkeylinux revision control VM (which has about 256MB RAM), and am attempting to clone one of the repositories I pushed up to it. It is very fast to push to (via ssh) but is extremely slow to pull from. Here's what I get if I leave it till SSH times out: $ git pull [email protected]'s password: remote: Cou...

mod security causes % sign to cause 'not acceptable error'

Hey guys I was just curious if anyone had this problem before. When I go to my site url http://www.site.com/search.php?q=%25 or simply type a % sign in the search bar, I get Not Acceptable An appropriate representation of the requested resource /search.php could not be found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found er...

How can I open up Windows Firewall (VISTA) for outbound traffic to allow computer to see networked drives?

I have a computer (Vista) that has to have a firewall on it. Furthermore, it's imposed (from management) that under Firewall properties, the Outbond connections are blocked. The default is "Allow". I would, however, like this computer to be able to see networked drives. I have tried opening up various things by going to Outbound Rules...

My Firewall Is Blocking YouTube-API Traffic. Which Exceptions Should I Configure?

Problem: I have code on my developer machine that can successfully publish a video to YouTube via the YouTube API. When I move this code to a QA machine, the firewall blocks the YouTube API communication. Other Information: - I've been using Fiddler2, and it seems that the YouTube API needs to communicate with both YouTube.com and u...

.Net FTPwebrequest having trouble sending file with ftps - firewall issue

I am trying to send a file via code using FTPWebRequest (ftps,pasv). I am getting the following error: Unable to read data from the transport connection. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to resp...

Winsock, accept request only from specific IP address

How can I make a Winsock program accept connection requests only from specific addresses? I would like denied connections to be ignored completely rather than get a TCP rejection. ...